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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: travellers and observers, 1763-1846 (search)
hilimackinac, thence by way of the Fox River and the Wisconsin to the Mississippi, and thence up the Minnesota; returning, he explored northern Wisconsin and the northern shore of Lake Superior. Failing in Boston to publish an account of his discoveries, in 1769 he went to England with a project for further exploration in the North-west. The pecuniary aid accorded him as a needy person by the Government would argue some recognition of his services. He evidently enlisted the sympathy of Dr. Lettsom and others who took an interest in his schemes, and, like many another, no doubt received help with the manuscript before his Travels were published in 1778. But he failed in his main endeavour, and is said to have died in misery, in 1780, at the age of 48. His book instantly became popular, and it so remained, as twenty-three editions and translations bear witness. The author or compiler, whoever he was, understood the public, was a man of some imagination, and knew how to combine
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
etter in defence of Aristocles, 83 n. Letter to his countrymen, a, 294 n., 301 n., 302 Letters and social aims, 352 Letters from an American Farmer, 192, 199 Letters from a Virginian, 136 Letters from the South, 239 Letters from Palmyra, 324 Letters from under a Bridge, 241 Letters of a Farmer in Pennsylvania, etc., 119, 120, 131-132, 140 Letters of Charles Eliot Norton, 355 n., 356 n. Letters of Fabius, 148 Letters of the British spy, 190, 202, 233, 236-237 Lettsom, Dr., 192 Lewis, Meriwether, 203-205, 209, 210 Lewis [R.?], 151 Liberty, 262 n., 271 Liberty and necessity, on, 94 Liberty Tree, 167 Liberty's call, 167 Library of poetry and song, 276 Life and manners, in the West, 318 Life in Brooklyn, etc., 229 Life in New York, or the fireman on duty, 228 Life in the New world, 212 Life of Columbus (see Columbus), 258 Life of Mahomet, 257 Life of Washington, 252, 253, 258-259 Lifetime, a, 261 n. 271 Lincoln, 278 L