Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America, for 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 /
Carver, Jonathan,1732?-1780.
Lettsom, John Coakley,1744-1815.
Edinburgh : Published by J. Key,
1808.
The third edition, London, 1781, was edited by John Coakley Lettsom, who may himself have composed the book from Carver's personal narrative and from earlier writers.
For discussion as to authorship, etc., cf. "the travels of Jonathan Carver," by E.G. Bourne (American historical review, Jan., 1906); also, "A bibliography of Carver's Travels," and "Captain Jonathan Carver: additional data," by J.T Lee.
Indians of North America