Observations on some parts of natural history : to which is prefixed an account of several remarkable vestiges of an ancient date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America. Pt. I / by Benjamin Smith Barton.

  • Benjamin Smith Barton
Date:
[1787?]
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Credit: Observations on some parts of natural history : to which is prefixed an account of several remarkable vestiges of an ancient date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America. Pt. I / by Benjamin Smith Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ( 7‘ ) Note [G], p. io. Tataria is the ancient name of Tartary. Note [H], p. 15 This refledtion on the charadter of Mr. Car- ver, may, perhaps, be thought to require fome explanation. It feems to me very improbable thaj this gentleman did ever penetrate into the interior parts of North America, which he has de- lcribed: he appears to have done little more than to have modernifed the uncouth relations of Hen- nipin and of La Hontan j at leaft, it is impoftible to read the travels of thefe writers, and thofe of Mr. Carver, without being ftruck with the re- markable fimilarity of obfervation, of incident, and fometimes of language, in almoft every page. Be- fides, had Mr. Carver travelled through the amazing extent of country, of which he has pub- lilhed an account to the world, his work could not but have been the repofitory of fome new and im- portant information: whereas all the more cu- rious or ufeful obfervations which it contains, are jnconteftibiy derived from other writers, and prin- cipally from thofe whom I have juft mentioned. This cenfure of the travels of Mr. Carver does I\ot proceed from a malevolent entire to injure the