A topographical description of the western territory of North America
Subtitle: containing a succinct account of its soil, climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners, and customs : with an ample description of the several divisions into which that country is partitioned ...
By: by Gilbert Imlay ... ; illustrated with correct maps of the western territory of North America ; of the state of Kentucky, as divided into counties, from actual surveys by Elihu Barker ; a map of the Tennessee government ; and a plan of the rapids of the Ohio ...
Contributors: Barker, Elihu.; Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.; Kennedy, Patrick.; Filson, John, 1753?-1788.; Heart, Jonathan, 1748-1791.; Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789.; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.; Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789.; North American Land Company.
Edition: The third edition, with great additions.
Publisher: Printed for J. Debrett
Published: 1797
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 598
Subjects: San Lorenzo Treaty, 1795.; Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803.; Genesee Region (N.Y.)
Table of contents: title: A topographical description of the western territory of North America ... / G. Imlay; title: I. The discovery, settlement, and present state of Kentucky ... / J. Filson; title: II. An account of the Indian nations inhabiting within the limits of the XIII states ...; title: III. The culture of Indian corn ... tobacco ...; title: IV. Observations on the ancient works, the native inhabitants of the western country, [etc.] / J. Heart; title: V. Historical narrative ... of Louisiana and West-Florida ... / T. Hutchins; title: VI. Account of the soil ... timber and other productions ... of the Genesee tract ...; title: VII. Remarks for the information of ... settlers in America / Dr. Franklin; title: VIII. Topographical description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina / T. Hutchins; title: IX. P. Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois River, [etc.]; title: X. Description of the state of Tenasee; title: XI. An act for establishing Knoxville