Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement, Band 3Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1904 |
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... plants in foreign countries . From 1779-81 he travelled in England , the Auvergne , and the Pyrenees ; and later ( 1782-85 ) , in Persia , botanizing , and studying the political situation of the Orient . He had intended to return to ...
... plants in foreign countries . From 1779-81 he travelled in England , the Auvergne , and the Pyrenees ; and later ( 1782-85 ) , in Persia , botanizing , and studying the political situation of the Orient . He had intended to return to ...
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... plants and their culture upon his estate . In this year he explored the mountains of the Carolinas , and a twelve - month later made a difficult and hazardous journey through the swamps and marshes of Florida . The next year ( 1789 ) ...
... plants and their culture upon his estate . In this year he explored the mountains of the Carolinas , and a twelve - month later made a difficult and hazardous journey through the swamps and marshes of Florida . The next year ( 1789 ) ...
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... plant or new tree interested him much more than an American general or a plot to subvert Spanish tyranny . His first Kentucky journey was , from the point of view of the diplomats , but moderately successful . With the collapse of the ...
... plant or new tree interested him much more than an American general or a plot to subvert Spanish tyranny . His first Kentucky journey was , from the point of view of the diplomats , but moderately successful . With the collapse of the ...
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... plants which Michaux had collected in America , and issued a year after the latter's death . " The few years that intervened between the journeys of the elder and younger Michaux show the rapidity with which the West was changing ...
... plants which Michaux had collected in America , and issued a year after the latter's death . " The few years that intervened between the journeys of the elder and younger Michaux show the rapidity with which the West was changing ...
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... plants grow on 3 For a description of the left - hand or southern branch of the road , known as " The Old Glade , " see Harris's Journal , post.― ED . * Evident error ; perhaps 320 was intended.— C. S. S. The distance in reality by this ...
... plants grow on 3 For a description of the left - hand or southern branch of the road , known as " The Old Glade , " see Harris's Journal , post.― ED . * Evident error ; perhaps 320 was intended.— C. S. S. The distance in reality by this ...
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