. 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'8 TRAVELS, k coutd receive any fnhdbitatits from Norway hy way of Greenland* , T.; â¢:r- It IS no lefs certain, he obferves, that the real Mexicans founded their empire in 962, after having fubdued the Chichimeques, the Otomias, and other barbarous nations, who had taken polTeffion of the ' country around the Lake of Mexico, and each of ;;^ whom fpoke a language peculiar to themfelves. ; ,The real Mexicans are likewife fuppofed to come ⢠from fome of the countries that lie near California, and that they performed their journey for the moft part by land y of pourfe they coyld no| come front Norway, f-^t.^^,- 'mW^H'^iSi'^^W^i-^ htfii:;. :>ffii- J . De Laet further adds, tKat though fbme of the inhabitants of North-America, may have entered it â .V from the north-weft, yet, as it is related by Pliny, and fome other writers, that on many of the iflands ^« near the weftern coaft of Africa, particularly on the ; Canaries, fome ancient edifices were feen, it is high- ly probable, from their-being now deferted, that the ;f' ;f inhabitants may have pafled over to America; the Is paflage being neithe; long nor difficult. This mi- gration, according to the calculation of tho
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