Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America
Subtitle: 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
By: By Captain Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America
Contributors: Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815
Publisher: Printed by John Russell, for David West, no. 56, Cornhill, Boston.
Published: 1797
Place of publication: [Boston]
Language: eng; dak; oji
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Glossaries, vocabularies; Dakota language; Description and travel; Indians of North America; Ojibwa language; Indian linguistics
Other titles: Carver's travels.
Work titles: Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768
Notes: First published in London, 1778 under title: Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768.

Also attributed tentatively to John Coakley Lettsom, known to be involved with the work at least in the category of editor. Cf. Bourne, E.G. "The travels of Jonathan Carver", Amer. hist. review, v. 11, no. 2 (Jan. 1906), p. 287-302.

The Houghton Library notes two settings of signatures E-K, P-Q, and S-W, distinguishable by the size of the signature marks.

"A short vocabulary of the Chipéway [Ojibwa] language": p. 241-249.

"A short vocabulary of the Naudowessie [Dakota] language": p. 249-253.

Signatures: a⁶ A-U⁶ W⁶ X-2B⁶

Sabin 11185.

Evans 31920.

ESTC W28309

Brown, J.C.  Cat., 1493-1800, III:3855.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf.