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Observations on the inhabitants, : climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matters worthy of notice. Made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada. To which is annex'd, a curious account of the cataracts at Niagara

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1751.
Call number: 111995
Creator: Bartram, John (1699-1777)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (8vo)
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