An account of the soil, growing timber, and other productions, of the lands in the countries situated in the back parts of the states of New York and Pensylvania, in North America : and particularly the lands in the county of Ontario, known by the name of the Genesee tract, lately located, and now in the progress of being settled.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[London],
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1791.
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| Item Description: | Title-page wanting; title supplied from copy in the library of the New York historical society. Caption title: An account of the lands called the Genesee tract, in the county of Ontario, and State of New-York in North America. First map has title: A map of the Genesee lands in the county of Ontario and state of New York according to an accurate survey which was made of the same 1790. Issued in the interests of Robert Morris, the owner of the tract, and evidently intended for circulation abroad. Reprinted, with the omission of part of the foot-note on maple sugar, and with some additional "Thoughts on emigration", in Imlay's Topographical description of the western territory of North America, 3d edition, 1797, pages 456-481; reprinted from Imlay, with the further omission of the long note on the operations of the American farmer, and the "Thoughts on emigration" prefixed to it, in the Documentary history of the state of New-York (quarto edition) 1850-51, volume 2, pages 646-654. Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., Xerox University Microfilms, 1973. 35 mm. (American Culture Series, reel 541.12) Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 page ., 37 pages : folded map. ; 26 cm. |