. 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. CAKVER't T^VEI^Si. :iof oiAf bvcd the difld whb ttet tcndereft affieaiop, but wu ft ffood hunter, tod wou&lbe *Mvide plen- tifully for ito fupport, than flg ceafed^ ta nmura* She added, that (he novr favr no reafoo- to continue her tearsy as the child on whom (he dotcdf was happy under the care and prote6tion of a fond father, and (he had only one wi(h that remained ungratified» vrhieh was that of being herfelf with themv ^. Expreffions fo rcpletewith una(Fe€^ed'ten4^rners, and- fentiments that would have done honor to a Roman^jf^ tron» made an impre(fion on my mtnd greatly in fl^r of the people to whom (he belonged,, andr^nded not a little to counteraft the prejudices I- had hiperto enter- tained, in cortinon with every other travelle^.of Indian ioirii^Mlity and want of paiental tendeme^, 'K«r fubfequent condud confirmcd^th^ i^vorable ^m- nioB Ihidjuft imbibed ^:and convinced mcf which is imphmted either by natlife orjpiftoiii^ every human heart, ftill lurked in hem Ii^^larved th^ (he went almoft every evening to the foo melajl* choly fong bemoaned its fate. A recapitulation of tEe anions he might have performed, had ms life been /par- ed, appeared to be theme; and whp^ (hej
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