. 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 popular for forming settlements. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. *-f .^ I w ^ f{ 211 SI â of 5>epteinber they return fo the river, family hiving its fcparatc allotment, and bcin^ able to liilbnguifti^tlicir own jiropc/iy by tije manner of taOcning the thcavcs, ^athcrjn the portion that belongs to thciw. This they do by placing their canoes clofc to the bunches of rice, in fuch pofitlon as to re- ceive the grain when it falls, and then beat it out, with pieces * of wDod formed for that purpofc. Having done this, ihcy dry it witli*|!UDkc^ and afterwards tread or rub off thcoutfwehusi^; when it is ftt for ufc they put it iito the skins of fawns, oi; , yonnj; buffalos, taken off nearly whole foj* this purpofe,, and fcwed into a f6rt of fack, wherein they prcfervc it till the rc- their harvcft.* It has been the fubjcft of much fpccu- lation, why this fpontancous g\ain is not found in any other re- gions of America, or in thole countries fituatcd in the fame pa- rallels of latitude, where the waters arc as apparently adapted^ for its growth as in the climates I treat of. As for inlhncc,' none of the countries that lie to the fouth and caft of the great lakes, even from the provinces north of the Carollnas, to the , evtremitics of I^abradorc, produce any
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