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A view of the soil and climate of the United States of America : with supplementary remarks upon Florida : on the French colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio, and in Canada : and on the aboriginal tribes of America / by C.F. Volney ; translated, with occasional remarks, by C.B. Brown.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820.
- Standardized Title:
- Tableau du climat et du sol des États-Unis d'Amérique. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Meteorology--United States.
- Meteorology.
- United States.
- Indians of North America.
- United States--Description and travel.
- Northwest, Old--History.
- Northwest, Old.
- Penn Provenance:
- Townsend, John W. (autograph) (cop. 1)
- Herrich, Edward (stamp) (cop. 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 446 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of folded plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : J. Conrad & Co., 1804.
- Contents:
- On the winds of Norway and Sweden
- On Florida and the work of Bernard Romans
- On Belknap's History of New Hampshire, and Williams's History of Vermont
- On Gallipolis, or the Scioto colony
- On the French colonies on the Wabash, &c.
- On the Indians of North America
- Vocabulary of the Miami language.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Tableau du climat et du sol des États-Unis d'Amérique.
- Translated by Charles Brockden Brown.
- "Erratum": p. xxviii.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 7675.
- OCLC:
- 1592598
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