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Voyage dans les parties intérieures de l'Amérique Septentrionale, pendant les années 1766, 1767 & 1768... Ouvrage traduit sur la troisieme édition angloise, par M. de C... avec des remarques & quelques additions du traducteur.
Yverdon: [s. n.] , 1784
Physical Description: xxxvi, 436 p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Call number: D784/ C331v1
Accession number: 02547
Notes: "Petit dictionnaire françois-chippevay", p. 310-316, is a glossary of words in the Ojibwa language.
"Petit dictionnaire françois-nadoessis", p. 317-320, is a glossary of words in the Dakota language.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Translated by Jean Étienne Montucla from Travels through the interior parts of North America, first published London, 1778, with the third edition published London, 1781."--Echeverria & Wilkie
Also attributed tentatively to John Coakley Lettsom, known to be involved with the work at least in the category of editor. Cf. Bourne, E.G. "The travels of Jonathan Carver", Amer. hist. review, v. 11, no. 2 (Jan. 1906), p. 287-302.
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Languages: Dakota / Ojibwa
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: North America
