42 results filtered with: United States - Description and travel
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Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles ... together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians ... and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. By Captain Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America.
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The history of North America and its United States. Including also, a distinct history of each individual state; Including Also, A Distinct History Of Each Individual State: Its Manners And Customs, Trade, Commerce, Religion, And Government, Manufactures And Agriculture, Climate, Soil, And Produce: With New Tables Of The Whole Of Their Imports And Exports, Revenue, Debt, Expenditure, Currency Of Coins, &c. &c. &c. To which is annexed, an account of new discoveries. By Edward Oliphant, Esq.
Oliphant, Edward.Date: 1800- Books
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Two tracts: Information to those who would remove to America. And, remarks concerning the savages of North America. By Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America. From the French of Abb̂De Raynal. In two volumes.
Raynal, abbé, 1713-1796.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A journal of the life of Thomas Story: containing, an account of his remarkable convincement of, and embracing the principles of truth, as held by the people called Quakers; And also, of his Travels and Labours in the Service of the Gospel: With many other Occurrences and Observations.
Story, Thomas, 1662-1742.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. Containing the latest and most accurate observations on the character, genius, and present state of the people ard [sic] government of that country-their agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and finances-quality and price of and the missisippe-political and moral character of the quakers, and a vindication of that excellent sect, from the misrepresentations of other travellers-state of the blacks-progress of the laws for their emancipation, and for the final destruction of slavery on that continent-accurate accounts of the climate, longevity-comparative tables of the probabilities of life between America and Europe, &c. &c. By J. P. Brissot De Warville. Translated from the French.
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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Travels through the United States of North America, the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada. By the Duke de La Rochefoucault Liancourt.
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747-1827.Date: 1799- Books
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Travels in the interior inhabited parts of North America. In the years 1791 and 1792. In which is given an account of ... the Indians, ... the mode of life ... among the new settlers of both Canadas, New York, New England, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia; ... Illustrated with copper-plates. By P. Campbell.
Campbell, P. (Patrick).Date: 1793- Books
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Carey's American pocket atlas: containing the following maps ... with a concise description of each state.
Date: 1796- Books
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The life and adventures of Sir William Wallace, General and Governor of Scotland. Containing, a particular account of his most remarkable battles with King Edward (longshanks); And of his mournful fare at London, after he was betrayed into the hands of the English: Where he was put to death, and his body quartered and sent to different towns in Scotland. With an account of the battle of Bannockburn, which was fought June 24th, 1314.
Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies. By W. Winterbotham. In four volumes. ...
Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829.Date: 1796- Books
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A critical examination of the Marquis de Chatellux's [i.e., Chastellux's] Travels, in North America, in a letter addressed to the Marquis; principally intended as a refutation of his opinions concerning the Quakers, the Negroes, the people, and mankind. Translated from the French of J.P. Brissot de Warville, with additions and corrections of the author. [One line of quotation in French]
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Desert passages : encounters with the American deserts / Patricia Nelson Limerick.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 1951-Date: [1985], ©1985- Books
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The american geography; or, a view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing astronomical geography; geographical definitions, discovery, and general description Of their Boundaries; Mountains; Lakes; Bays, and Rivers; Natural History; Production; Population; Government; Agriculture; Commerce; Manufactures, and History. - A concise Account of the War, and of the important Events which have succeeded: A Particular Discription Of Kentucky, The Western Territory, The Territory South Of Ohio, And Vermont: Of their Extent; Civil Divisions; Chief Towns; Climates; Soils; Trade; Character; Constitutions; Courts of Justice; Colleges; Academies; Religion; Islands; Indians; Literary and Humane Societies; Springs; Curiosities; Histories; Mines; Minerals; Military Strength, &c. With A View Of The British, Spanish, French, Portuguese, And Dutch Dominions, ON The Continent, And In The West Indies, And Of Europe, Asia, And Africa. By Jedidiah Morse, A.M.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: 1794- Books
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Travels through the middle settlements in North-America. In the years 1759 and 1760. With observations upon the state of the colonies. By the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, A. M. Vicar of Greenwich.
Burnaby, Andrew, 1732-1812.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Two tracts: Information to those who would remove to America. And remarks concerning the savages of North America by Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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An excursion to the United States of North America, in the summer of 1794. Embellished with the Profile of General Washington; and an Aqua-Tinta View of the State-House, at Philadelphia. By Henry Wansey, F. A. S.
Wansey, Henry, 1751-1827.Date: 1798- Books
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A concise history of the United States, from the discovery of America till 1795: with a correct map of the United States.
M'Culloch, John, 1754-1824.Date: --1795. (Entered according to act of Congress)- Books
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A farther continuation of Dr. Coke's journal: in a letter to the Rev. J. Wesley.
Coke, Thomas, 1747-1814.Date: 1787- Books
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Travels through the middle settlements in North-America. In the years 1759 and 1760. With observations upon the state of the colonies. By the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, A. M. Vicar of Greenwich.
Burnaby, Andrew, 1732-1812.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Travels through the middle settlements in North America, in the year 1759 and 1760; with observations upon the state of the colonies. By the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, D. D. Archdeacon of Leicester and Vicar of Greenwich.
Burnaby, Andrew, 1732-1812.Date: 1798- Books
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The life and adventures of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the king of the beggars. Being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School, at the Age of Fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gipsies; Wherein the Motives of his Conduct will be related and explained: The great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other Places of Europe: With his Travels twice through great Part of America. Giving a Particular Account Of the Origin, Government, Laws, and Customs of the Gipsies; with the Method of Electing their King: and a dictionary of the cant language, used by the mendicants.
Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Letters from an American farmer, describing certain provincial situations, manners, and customs, and conveying some idea of the state of the people of North America. Written to a friend in England, by J. Hector St. John, a farmer in Pennsylvania.
St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813.Date: March 4, --MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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An apology for the life of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly call'd the King of the beggars; Being an impartial Account of his Life, from his leaving Tiverton School, at the Age of Fifteen, and entering into a Society of Gypsies, to the present Time; wherein the Motives of his Conduct will be explain'd, and the great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland and several other Places of Europe be related; with his Travels twice through great Part of America. A particular Account of the Original, Government, Language, Laws and Customs of the Gypsies; their Method of electing their King, &c. And a Parallel drawn after the Manner of Plutarch, between Mr. Bampfylde Moore Carew and Mr. Thomas Jones.
Goadby, Robert, 1721-1778.Date: [1750?]- Books
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A concise history of the United States, from the discovery of America till 1795: with a correct map of the United States.
M'Culloch, John, 1754-1824.Date: --1797. (Entered according to act of Congress)