A topographical description of the dominions of the United States of America.
A topographical description of such parts of North America as are contained in the (annexed) map of the middle British colonies, &c., in North America.
Edited by Lois Mulkearn.

Description

Main Author

Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805.

Related Names

Mulkearn, Lois, ed.
Gist, Christopher, -1759.
Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756.

Language(s)

English

Published

Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1949.

Subjects

Ohio River Valley > Ohio River Valley / Description and travel.
Middle Atlantic States > Middle Atlantic States / Description and travel.
New England > New England / Description and travel

Note

journey, began from Col. Cresap's, at the old town on Potomack River, Maryland, October 31, 1750, continued down the Ohio ... and from thence to Roanoak River in North Carolina ... 1751.
Appendix (p. 154-200): 1. The account of Capt. Anthony Van Schaick of the ground between the entrance of Lake Chanplain at Crown Point, and the mouth of Otter Creek.--2. Captain Anthony Van Schaick's journal. 1756.--3. Captain Hobb's account of the way from No.4, in New Hampshire, to the mouth of Otter Creek.--4. Extracts from the journal of Captain Harry Gordon ... who was sent from Fort Pitt ... to Illinois, in 1766.--5. Extract from Mr. Lewis Evan's journal. 1743.--6. A journal of Christopher Gist's
"A map of the middle British colonies in North America. First published by Mr. Lewis Evans ... in 1755; and since corrected ... with the addition of New England, and bordering parts of Canada ... by T. Pownall": fold. map mounted on p. [3] of cover.
Printed from the author's ms. completed in 1784, now in the Darlington Memorial Library, University of Pittsburgh.

Physical Description

xvi, 235 p. fold. map, facsims. 32 cm.

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