. 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 a
. 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; genealogy. t' t2f CARVER'S TRAVELS. At the entrance of Ofwego Rivor (lands a fort of the fame name, garrifoned at prefent only by an in- coniiderable party. The fort was taken in the year 1756, by the French, when a great part of the gar- rifon, which confifted of the late Shirley's and Pep^ peril's regiments, were maHacred in cold blood by the favages. "'- In Lake Ontario are taken many forts of fifli, among which is the Ofwego Bafs, of an excellent flavour, and weighing about three or four pounds.' There is alfo a fort called the Cat-head or Pouf^ which are in general very large, fome of theni weighing eight or ten pounds, and they are eileemed a rare difh when properly drefled. i'; J? .^ ,'i^fm^^^^^^^^*;-^";^:'}'':--'â '^ The Onaida Lake,s fituated near the head of the River Ofwego^ receives the waters of Wood-Creek, which takes its rife not far from the Mohawks River. Thefe two lie fo adjacent to each other, that a junction is effeifled by fluices at Fort Stanwix, about twelve miles from the mouth of the former. This lake is about thirty miles long from eaft to weft, and near fifteen broad. The country around it be-^ longs to the Onaida Indian*:, ..,,/" .. -»- Lake Champlain, the ne
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