. 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. eAaVER's TRAVELS. h- im^ wlach they no (bbacr enter, tliatt tl|e gitmft pvt â¢f tlien SK! inmediatdjr di^^Hclied % vjgholc i;lio re- auiin in the caaoes. i Bot!» tlw elk and the Imffdb are vtry fiarieat. wlicn tliey ant wouaded* and will return ficrcdy on .tl|ffir jpur- Jttfn»aiid tramplr tliem under their fcet»if the hmnar iadt 10 meant to complete their deftraaio^or dttt ool fipek ht lecitrity in Aight to Ibme adjaceoflraei hf thit^e- flM are n«qocnUy avoidedy ania fo tired vmk tkt ^- l^t| that they 'vohinurily g^ve it over. ^ But the httnting in whidi the Indianii^;pai||cn|ai|y thpfie who inhabit the northern parts» chidly employ ^»emfclvct, and from which they reap the fr^Mteft ad- ^itmt^t »the beaver hunting. Tbe ftafim ftr tbii if dtt^gbout the whole of the winter, from Novetsaber to M^l during which time the fur of tiiefe erealvrcf is in the greateft perfedfon. A. deforiptioii of thif ex- tiraocli^ary animal, the conftroAioa of their hotti and HieireftitlitioBi of theur ahnoft latiosal commnniif « I Alan give in another place. The hunters make ofe 6£ fevend mcthodi lo d^iroy them. Thofe generally praa^, alt e&her l||l of taking thtm in lii«res, cutting throti|^ the
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