Observations on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matters worthy of notice /
made by John Bartram, in his travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada ; to which is annex'd, a curious account of the cataracts at Niagara by Peter Kalm.

Description

Main Author

Bartram, John, 1699-1777.

Related Names

Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1751.

Subjects

Iroquois Indians.
Indians of North America.
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) > Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) / Description and travel.
Pennsylvania > Pennsylvania / Description and travel.
New York (State) > New York (State) / Description and travel.

Note

Bartram and Lewis Evans accompanied Conrad Weiser on a mission from the government of Pennsylvania to the Iroquois, to settle a quarrel between the Indians and the colony of Virginia. Weiser's journal is printed in the set known as Colonial records of Pennsylvania, 1851, v. 4, p. 660-669.

Physical Description

94 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

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