View of the climate and soil of the United States of America: to which are annexed some accounts of Florida, the French colony on the Scioto, certain Canadian colonies and the savages or natives: tr. from the French of C.F. Volney ..
xxiv, [iii]-vi, 503, [1] p. fold. plates, fold. maps. 24 cm
Type:
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Place:
United States
Mississippi River Valley
Date:
1804
Notes:
Appendix (p. [333]-501): On the winds of Sweden.--Elucidations of different articles mentioned in the work: I. On Florida, and the work of Bernard Romans, entitled A concise natural and moral history of East and West Florida. II. On the History of New Hampshire, by Jeremiah Belknap; and the History of Vermont, by S. Williams. III. Gallipolis or the French colony on the Ohio. IV. Of the colony at Fort Vincents on the Wabash, and of the French colonies on the Mississippi and Lake Erie. V. General observations on the Indians or savages of North America. VI. Vocabulary of the language of the Miamis.
Provenance: George P. Merrill (donor's bookplate); Alex. Parris, (autograph); J.B. Woodworth (presentation inscription to Merrill). DSI
