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1 Gilbert Imlay, A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America (3rd ed.) i (1797)

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                               A

    TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION

                             OF THE

                WESTERN TERRITORY

                               Or

          NORTH AMERICA:

                          CONTAINING
A  fuccinct ACCOuNT   of its SoIL, CLIMATE, NATURAL His-
  ro'Y,  PC'PULATION, AGRICULTURE, MANNERS, and Cus-
  TOMS. With an ample Defcription of   the feveral Divifions into
  which  that Country is partitioned
                      TO WHICH  ARE ADDED,


1. The D~fcovery, Settlement, and pre-
  fent State of Kentucky; with an ElTay
  towards the Topography and N tu-
  ral Iliflory of that important Coun-
  try, by J. Fifln. Alfo he Minutes
  of the Piankathaw Council, 1784.
II. An Account of the Indian Nations
  inhabiting within the Limits of the
  XIII States; their Manners and
  Cufloas ; and RRfle&ions on their
  Orizin.
Ill. The  Culture of Indian Corn,
  Hemp,  Flax, Hops, Tobacco, In-
  digo, Cotton, Senega Root, Efquiiie,
  Madder, Jalap, Potat es,Si!kwfrms,
  Perfimmon. vai ious Ki-ds of Grapes,
  Ikrries, and Ntits, the Candlebeir
  Myrtle, Sumach, Coffee, end o:her
  Particulars in the vegetable King-
  dom.
IV.  Obfervations on the  ancient
  Works. the native Inhabitants ot
  the Weflern Country, &c. by Major
  Jonathan Heart.
V. Hitiorical Narrative and Topogra-
  phical Def-ription of Louiliona .nd
  Vcit Florida, containing a great Va-


  riety of iiterefting Pa;ticulars, by
  Mr  Thomas Hutchins.
VI.  Account of the Soil, growing
  Timber, and other Produions of
  feveral Lands, p.rticularly the Gene-
  fee Traet, lately loca-ed, and now in
  the Progrefs of being (ettled.
VII. Remarks for the Information of
  thofe who with to become Settlers
  in America, by Dr. Franklin.
VII.  Topsgraphical Delcription of
  Virginia, Pennfylvania, Maryland,
  and North-Carolina, by Mr. Tho.
  Hutchin .
IX. Mr. Paroick Kennedy's Journal up
  the I linois River. &c-
X. Defeription of the State of Tenafee,
  and of the South-weilern Tcrritory,
  with the Conflitution of Tenafee
  eflablifhed 2796.
XI. An A& for cltablifhing Knoxville.
XII. Treaty concluded between the
  United States ot America ai d the
  Crown of Spain, for the free Navi-
  gation of the Mifliflippi.
XIII  Plan of Affociation of the North
  Am, ricaun Land Company, &c.


               By  GILBERT IMLAY,
A Captain in the Amprican Army during the War, and Commifflioner for
              laying out Lands in tie Back Settlements.

Illuftrated with corrcEt Mapsof the Welclrn Teritory of NoR Tu AmtICA;
  oftheSTATe. or KENTUCKY, as divided into'Counties, from atual Surveys
  by ElIhu Barkcr; a Map of the Tenaiec Goverinment ; and a Plan of the
  Rapids of th Ohio.

                THE THIRD EDITIO N,
                     WITH GREAT  ADDITIONS.

                        L  0  N DO N:
                 PRINTED FOR '. DEBRETT,
            OPPOSITZ BURLINGTON  HOUSE, PICCADILLY,


                             1797.

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