. Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America for more than five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north-west regions of that vast continent : with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects and fishes peculiar to the country : together with a concise history of the genius, manners and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi and an app
. Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America for more than five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north-west regions of that vast continent : with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects and fishes peculiar to the country : together with a concise history of the genius, manners and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi and an appendix describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. A X> 0 R ESS. allf. This he has done; but without endeavoring to ac- count for tlie means by whic?? it was accompliihcd. Whe- ther the predifUon was the refult of prior obfervations* from which certain confequences were expe^ed to fol- low by the fagaciout prieft, and the completion of it merely accidental; or whether h« was really endowed with fupernatural powersi the narrator left to the judg- ment of h^ readers ; whofe conclufions, he fuppofes, va- ried according as the mental faculties of each were dif- pofed to admit or reject fafks that cannot be accounted for by natural caufes* , The iiory of the rattle fnake was related to him by a French gentleman of undoubted veracity; and were the readers of this work as tlK)roughly acquainted with the and inftinfUve proceedings of diat animal* as he ii».they vould be as well afTured of the truth of it. It is jvell known that thofe fnakes which have furvived through the ful^Mner the accidents reptiles are liable to, periodical- ly leture to. ^e woods, at the approach of Mrinter ; where flfch (ascurious obfervers have remarked) takes poi&ffion ^•f the cavity it had occupied the preceding year. As fooa as the feafon is propitious, enlivened by die invigo
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