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. 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. ^ CARVEItn «Mwa Hioiikl they Ml Hm t«to thrbrndb of iriudr af* £ialiitt» occufion the mod eztnordiiitrf efteitioiif en both fides. The figure of the comhttmiti aU be^new- ed with black and ied|iaiRt» and coinered wkh the blood of the (lain, their horrid yells, and siigovemid^e fnry, aic not to be coaceived by thofe vHho lurrt^iiCTer ef0Btd the Atkoti^ ;n;"^; ,,;.:,â¢. :.;â¢*'â t.:-/ I have frequently been a fpedator of them,, and oaee bore a part in a fimikr fi»ne. But what added to the horror of it was, thalt I had not the eonfolation of be« iilg abk to oj^fe their fiirage attacks. Every circum- muice of the adventure on my rememlmiocet Md enables me to defcribe with greater perfj^icwty. the brutal fiercei^fs of the tadians mktm they hivt for* prifcd or overpowered an enemy. As a detail of the maflacre at Fort WiUnMi Hcnty in the year 1757, the fcene to which I refer, cannot araeu* foreign to the defign of this pubBeation, but frdl Icrre to give my readers m juft idea of the fei^ity of this peopk, I (hall take the liberty to infert tt, apo- kigittlig at the fame time for the length of the digroffi- on, and thofe egotifins which the relation renders un-
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