Excerpt from Three Years Travels Throughout the Interior Parts of North America, for More Than Five Thousand Miles: Containing an Account of the Great Lakes, and All the Lakes, Islands, and Rivers, Cataracts, Mountains, Minerals, Soil and Vegetable Productions of the North West Regions of That Vast Continent The favorable reception this work has met with, claims the Author's molt grateful acknowledg ments. A large edition having run off in a few months, and the file appearing to be {till tut-abated, a new impreflion is become necefimy. On this oc cafion, was he to conceal his feelings and pafs over in filence, a diltinflion fo beneficial and flattering, he would jultly incur the imputation of ingratitude. That he might not do this; he takes the Opporttmity, which now prefents'itfelf, of conveying to the Public (though in terms inadequate _to the warm emotions of hisheart) the fenfe he entertains of their favor 3 and'thfus tranfmits to them his thanks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.