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Microform

Author

Bossu, M., 1720-1792.

Title Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana [microform] / By Mr. Bossu ; translated from the French, by John Reinhold Forster ; illustrated with notes relative chiefly to natural history. To which is added by the translator a systematic catalogue of all the known plants of English North-America, or, A flora Americae Septentrionalis. Together with an abstract of the most useful and necessary articles contained in Peter Loefling's Travels through Spain and Cumana in South America. Referred to the pages of the original Swedish edition.

Imprint

London : Printed for T. Davies, 1771.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of American Civilization Microfiche Cabinets	LAC 23242	---	Available

Description	2 v.
Series	Library of American civilization ; LAC 23242
Note	Published originally under title: Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales, Paris, 1768, and comprising the author's observations during his first two visits to the country, 1751-1757 and 1757-1762.
	The systematic catalogue of plants also published separately as Flora Americae Septentrionalis.
	"Translation of the account [in epistolary form] of Bossu's first two trips as related in the second Le Jay edition of the Nouveaux voyages aux Indes occidentales."
Reproduction	Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources,inc., 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 23242)
Subject	Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley.
	Indians of North America -- Southern States.
	Louisiana -- Description and travel
	Haiti -- Description and travel.
Added Author	Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798