Identifier: travelsininterio00camp (find matches)
Title: Travels in the interior inhabited parts of North America : in the years 1791 and 1792 ; in which is given an account of the manners and customs of the Indians, and the present war between them and the Fderal States, the mode of life and system of farming among the new settlers of both Canadas, New York, New England, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia ; interspersed with anecdotes of people, observations on the soil, natural productions, and political situation of these countries ; illustrated with copper-plates
Year: 1793 (1790s)
Authors: Campbell, P. (Patrick)
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for the author and sold by J. Guthrie
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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y, thedangers and difficulties of which would stag-ger many, more accustomed than I was totravelling in this country, and inured to theways necefsary, through impenetrable forests,a savage wildernefs, and mountains coveredwith snow; and what I deemed little betterwas, that I had to go from 270 to 300 miles,by water, through broad and rapid streams,broken with stones and rocks, which madeit both unsafe and intricate to get up againstthem in a small birch canoe, that could hard-ly carry my Dog besides the poleman, or na-vigator, and myself. Of all this I was inform-ed by others, as well as by my nephew, theengineer, who prefsed me much to wait un-til next May, when I might, without any dan-ger of being overtaken by snow in the moun-tains, get through with more safety; andmentioned that lord Fitzgerald, who had un-dertaken such a journey ay ear or two ago, fromFrederick Town to Quebec, in the dead ofwinter, was well provided with a small par-ty, snow fhoes, and every thing necefsary for.
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