. Three years' travels thoughout [sic] the interior parts of North America, for more than five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the lakes, islands and rivers, cateracts [sic], 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 west of the river Mississippi; and an appendix, describing the unc
. Three years' travels thoughout [sic] the interior parts of North America, for more than five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the lakes, islands and rivers, cateracts [sic], 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 west of the river Mississippi; and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are most proper for forming settlements. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. CAEVER^S TRAVELS. I#. j|jfbict» wb^h afimtpecl veiy Micieiitv for tim« liad â nearly coTered tfaem with mofs, fo that it vna with ciif* .ficolty Icould trace thein> They were cut in a nsdt mannerViipoii the infide of che waUs, which wetecom- pofedof a ftonefo eztreiodx ibft that it mtgki; ealily be gtn^tiatfd with a knife; a ftone ererj where to be Qfid near the Miffifippi^ The cave is onlj acceffible I by afcending a narrow, fteep^siTage, that Ket near the i^rink of the river. At a little diftaoce from thU dreary cavern* is the ba# Irying-^aceof fetreralbancUof UieNaudoweflie Indians s though ^eie people have: no fixd^refidence, Uvi«^g in I teats and abiding but a low months on one fpot, yet li&Y always br^ the bones of theirdead to this place; #hi£h ^ey tfakethe^opportanity of dcung when the chiefs iB$et to hold their' ^ eonncilst and to iettle all public af- £^ fi>r the entiling fammer. Ten miles below the Falls of St. Anthony* the TiTfr ^tiBSerre/cafied by the natives ^e Waddapawoien. [efotor, falls into the MiQiiippi from the Weft. It is not men^'on^d by iidier H«nnipeni although, a largie f;^r riveii this oauffion I conclude* muft have proceeded i#em a ^aUifland that is fituated exadly »t its ent
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