Travels Through that Part of North America Formerly Called Louisiana, Volum 2

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T. Davies, 1771 - 436 sider
"This narrative is comprised of a series of twenty-one letters to the Marquis de L'Estrade describing Bossu's life and travels in the vast Louisiana country from 1751 to 1762. His ventures ranged from Fort Chartres, in present-day Illinois, to Mobile, and along the Mississippi. His visit to New Orleans took place only thirty years after its founding, and he was able to gather considerable information from the memories of locals. ... Almost all of the second volume of this edition is given over to the catalogue of plants, making it an important piece of American natural history." -- William Reese Company catalog 347 "The Streeter Sale Revisited Fifty Years Later."
 

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Side 1 - Forster, illustrated with notes relative chiefly to natural history. To which is added by the translator a systematic catalogue of all the known plants of English North...
Side 20 - Water-milfoil, comm.Ibid. fubulata gibba VERBENA orubica nodiflora haftata Carolina urticifolia fpuria Tubulated gibbous Vervain, orubian jointed haftated Carolina N. Amer. N. Amer. Me of Arabua or Oruba Virginia N. Amer. N. Amer. nettle- leav'dN. Amer. fpurious N. Amer. • LYCOPUS Virginicus Water-horehoundVir.
Side 19 - A catalogue of the known plants, shrubs and trees in North America, collected from various writers on that subject.
Side 41 - Canadian Canada pumila dwarf Ibid. domeftica common Penfylv. Kalm's Trav. ip 67. fpinofa fpinofe Ibid. Ibid. p. 68. cerafus? wild cherry Canada Kalm'sTrav. iii. p.
Side 42 - Rafp-berry, common Virginia Gron. fl. virg. p. 78, occidentalis american Can.Penf. Kalm'sTrav. ip 66. hifpidus hifpid Ibid, fruticofus Black-berry, common Virginia canadenfis . . Canada Canada odoratui odoriferous Ibid, arfticus northern Ibid.
Side 59 - Virginia TRIANDRI A. TYPHA latifolia Reed-mace, or Cat's N. Amer. In Virginia the poorer tail people eat it, and are very fond of ii, becaufe it has a fweetiih taile.
Side 32 - Catefb. app. t. 4. vernix poifon-wood Ibid. Kalm's Trav. ip 77. copallinum copal tree Virg. Flo. radicans poifon-oak N. Amer. Kalm's Trav. ip 177.
Side 46 - I place this plant Penfyl. here merely on Dr. \ . Gronovius's authority, who pofitively correfts Africa in Linnxus's fpecies pi. and puts Virginia and Penjyl'vaniaas the na.
Side 9 - Indies to fee this wonder, which, if it had really exifted, would have been worth more than all the gold in the world. -, When thefe Spaniards returned to Cadiz, every one found that they had been deceived...
Side 54 - NewEng. land cordated N. Amer. redftalked Ibid, annual Canada vernal Virginia fmooth N. Amer. variable Ibid. Tradefcant's Virginia New York N.York Penfylv.

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