Early Western Travels

1748-1846

Volume IV

1748-1846

A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best
and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, de-
scriptive of the Aborigines and Social and
Economic Conditions in the Middle
and Far West, during the Period
of Early American Settlement

Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by

Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.
Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Wisconsin
Historical Collections," "Chronicles of Border Warfare,"
"Hennepin's New Discovery," etc.

COPYRIGHT 1904, BY

THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Lakeside Press

R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY

CHICAGO

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV

PREFACE. The Editor

SKETCHES OF A TOUR TO THE WESTERN COUNTRY, through the

States of Ohio and Kentucky; a Voyage down the Ohio and

Mississippi Rivers, and a Trip through the Mississippi Ter-

ritory, and part of West Florida. Commenced at Philadel-

phia in the Winter of 1807, and concluded in 1809. Fortes-

cue Cuming.

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