. 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. 6$ CARVER'S TRAVELS. The Miffiflipp! has never been explored higher up than the river St Francis, and only by Father. Hennepin and myfelf thus far. So that we are obliged folely to the Indians, for all the intelligence jwe are able to give relative to the more northern parts. As this river is not navigable from the fei for veflels of any confiderable burthen, much higher up than the forks of 'he Ohio, and even that is ac- compliflied with great .difficulty, owing to the ra- pidity of the current, and thewiiy^ing of the river ; ihofe fettlements that may be made on the interior branches of it, muift be indifputably fecure from the attacks of any maritime power. But at the fam^ time the fettlers will have the advantage of being able to <;onvey their produce to the fea-ports with great facility, the current of the river from its fource! to its eritrailce into the Gulf of Mexico, being ex- tremely favourable for dping this in ffnall craft. This might alfo in time be facilitated by canals or fhorter cuts ; and a communication pened by water with New-York, Canada, kc. by way of the lakes. The forks of the Ohio are about nine hundred miles from the mouth of the Miffiffippi, following the: conrfe of
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