Identifier: travelsthroughin00carv (find matches)
Title: Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768
Year: 1781 (1780s)
Authors: Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780. cn Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815. cn
Subjects: Indians of South America
Publisher: London, C. Dilly (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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