Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles
Subtitle: containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers ... of the north-west regions of that vast continent ... : 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 the forming settlements
By: by Captain Jonathan Carver ...
Contributors: Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Charles Peirce, for David West ... Boston
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Printed at Portsmouth, New-Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Northwestern States -- Early works to 1800.; Ojibwa language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Dakota language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Northwestern States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Mississippi River -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Minnesota -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Notes: Evans 26745
Authorship in dispute, with E.G. Bourne attributing the work to J.C. Lettsom.  For discussion, cf. "The travels of Jonathan Carver," by E.G. Bourne (American hist. rev., Jan. 1906); also A bibliography of Carver's Travels (Madison, 1910) and Captain Jonathan Carver: additional data, by J.T. Lee (Madison, 1913).
First edition, London, 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768.
Signatures: a⁶ A² B-2A⁶ 2B⁴.
"A short vocabulary of the Chipeway language": p. 215-223.
"A short vocabulary of the Naudowessie language": p. 223-228.