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100 1 $aCarver, Jonathan,$d1710-1780.
240 10 $aTravels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768.
245 10 $aThree years travels through the interior parts of North-America, :$bfor more than five thousand miles, 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. /$cBy Captain Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America.
260 $aPhiladelphia: :$bPrinted by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-streets.,$cM DCC LXXXIX. [1789]
300 $axvi, vii, [2], 10-282, [2] p. ;$c17 cm. (12mo)
500 $aRunning title: Carver's travels.
500 $aFirst published in London, 1778 under title: Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768.
500 $aAlso attributed tentatively to John Coakley Lettsom, known to be involved with the work at least in the category of editor. Cf. Bourne, E.G. "The travels of Jonathan Carver", Amer. hist. review, v. 11, no. 2 (Jan. 1906), p. 287-302.
500 $aSignatures: a⁶ A² B-2A⁶ 2B⁴ (2B4 blank)
500 $a"A short vocabulary of the Chipéway [Ojibwa] language": p. 215-223.
500 $a"A short vocabulary of the Naudowessie [Dakota] language": p. 223-227.
510 4 $aSabin$c11185.
510 4 $aEvans$c21728.
510 4 $aBrown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800,$cIII:3258.
510 4 $aESTC$cW28307.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.
650 0 $aIndians of North America$zNorthwestern States.
650 0 $aOjibwa language$xGlossaries, vocabularies, etc.
650 0 $aDakota language$xGlossaries, vocabularies, etc.
650 4 $aIndian linguistics$xOjibwa language.
650 4 $aIndian linguistics$xDakota language.
651 0 $aNorthwestern States$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aMississippi River$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aMinnesota$xDescription and travel.
653 $aImprint 1789.
700 1 $aLettsom, John Coakley,$d1744-1815.
752 $aUnited States$bPennsylvania$dPhiladelphia.
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