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An Account of Louisiana : being an abstract of documents, in the offices of the departments of State, and of the Treasury.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 5197.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Louisiana Purchase.
- Natural history--Louisiana.
- Natural history.
- Population--Statistics.
- Population.
- Louisiana--Description and travel.
- Louisiana.
- Louisiana--Politics and government--To 1803.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- 50 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, xc pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.?] : Duane, printer., [1803]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Compiled by direction of President Jefferson from information furnished by Dr. John Sibley, of Natchitoches, La., and others. Cf. Jefferson's Writings, edited by P.L. Ford, v. 10, 1899, p. 338, and Mitchill, S.L. Discourse on ... Jefferson, 1826, p. 27.
- Transmitted to Congress Nov. 14, 1803. Published in American state papers; Miscellaneous, Washington, 1834, v. 1, p. 344-356, with title: Description of Louisiana.
- William Duane operated presses at both Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. in 1803. Ascribed to his Washington press in NUC and Shaw & Shoemaker.
- "Appendix to an Account of Louisiana ..." p. [3], ii-xc, has separate title page. Appendix no. I is a digest of the laws of Louisiana. Appendices II-VI include census and population statistics.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 5197).
- Contains:
- Appendix to an Account of Louisiana ...
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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