. 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. , CARVER'S TRAVELS m SKUNK CABBAGE or POKE is an herb that gt-ows in moiil aad fwampy places. The leaves o£ it are about a foot long, and hx inches broad, near<* iy oval, but rather pointed. The roots are cosmpo- led of great numbers of fibres, a lotion of whiich ii made ufe of by the people of the colonies for the cure of the itch. There iflues a ftrong ttiulky fmell from this herb, foinething like the animal of the fame name, before defcribed, and on that account it is fo termed. •' WAKE ROBIN is an herb that grows in fwam- py lands; its root refembles a fmall turnip, and if taikd \f/i\\ greatly iifflame the tongue, and imme- diately convert it from its natural Ihape into a round hard fubitance; in which ilate it will continue for fome time, and during this no other part of the mouth will be aifeded. But when dried, it lofcs its adringent quality, and becomes beneficial to mankind, for if grated into cold water, and ta?reii internally, it is very good for all complaints of the bowels. WILD INDIGO is an Kerb of the fame fpecies as ?hat from whence indigo is made in the fouthern colonies. It grows on oneftalkto the height of five or fix inches from the ground, when it divides into many
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