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Umständige geographische Beschreibung der zu allerletzt erfundenen Provintz Pensylvaniae, in denen End-Gräntzen Americae In der West-Welt gelegen.
Frankfurt & Leipzig: Andreas Otto, 1704
Physical Description: 6 p.l., 140 p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Call number: J719/ H719k
Accession number: 32205
Notes:
Pages 80-81 contain various specimens of an unidentified Indian laguage or languages. The Indian tribes who were living in Pennsylvania were the Lenape, Iroquois, Shawnee, Erie, Munsee, Susquehannock, and the Nanticoke. "Zum Beschluss Folget des Eigen-Herrns und Ober-Haupts dieser Provintz selbst concepirte, und an seine Freunde übersandte Beschreibung, deren Umstände notabel zu lessen sind", p. [121]-140, has divisional title page and is a slightly condensed reprint of: Beschreibung der in America neu-erfundenen Provinz Pensylvanien / by William Penn, first printed in Hamburg, 1684, the original texts of which were first printed under titles: A letter from William Penn poprietary [sic] and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders, London, 1683, and An abstract of a letter from Thomas Paskell, London, 1683. Edited by Melchior Adam Pastorius.
First printed Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1700.
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Delaware
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: North America
