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: 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 Tenasee government; and a plan of the rapids of the Ohio.
Contributors: Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.; Kennedy, Patrick.; Filson, John, ca. 1747-1788.; Heart, Jonathan, 1748-1791.; Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789.; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.; Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789.
Edition: The 3d ed., with great additions.
Series: Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 279, no. 2771.
Publisher: Printed for J. Debrett
Published: 1797
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 598
Subjects: San Lorenzo Treaty, 1795; Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel; Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel; Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803; Genesee Region (N.Y.)
Notes: The above is the order of contents as given on the t.-p., but differs from the numbering and order of articles as given in the book.

Master microform held by: ResP.

Howes, U.S.IANA, no. I.12.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn., Research Publications, 1975. 1 reel. 35 mm. (Western Americana, reel 279, no. 2771)

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Table of contents: title: A topographical description of the western territory ... [by G. Imlay] to which are added, I. The discovery, settlement, and present state of Kentucky ... by 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, &c., by J. Heart.; title: V. Historical narrative ... of Louisiana and West-Florida ... by 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, by Dr. Franklin.; title: VIII. Topographical description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North-Carolina, by ... T. Hutchins.; title: IX. P. Kennedy's Journal up the Illinois River, &c.; title: X. Description of the state of Tenasee.; title: XI. An act for establishing Knoxville.; title: XII. Treaty ... between the United States ... and ... Spain, for the free navigation of the Mississippi.; title: XIII. Plan of association of the North American Land Company, &c.