The history of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, which are dependent on the province of New-York in America, and are the barrier between the English and French in that part of the world : with particular accounts of their religion, manners, customs, laws, and forms of government ; their several battles and treaties with the European nations ; their wars with the other Indians ; and a true account of the present state of our trade with them : in which are shewn, the great advantage of their trade and alliance to the British nation, and the intrigues and attempts of the French to engage them from us ; a subject nearly concerning all our American plantations, and highly meriting the attention of the British nation at this juncture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for Lockyer Davis, at Lord Bacon's Head in Fleet-street : J. Wren in Salisbury-court : And J. Ward in Cornhill, opposite the Royal-Exchange, MDCCLV [1755]
Edition:The third edition.
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Description
Item Description:Pagination: volume 1: xii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 260 pages; volume 2: 2 unnumbered leaves, 251 pages, 9 unnumbered pages.
Nine pages of bookseller's adveisements at end of volume 2.
At the end of volume 1 is a Vocabulary comparing the French, English and Indian names of peoples and places.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:2 volumes : folded map ; 18 cm
Place of Publication:Great Britain -- England -- London.