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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)
in of a Company of Provincial Troops during the Late War with France ; and he probably was captured with Burk's company of rangers in 1757, when he was wounded in his Leg at the bloody Massacree of the unhappy Garrison of Fort William Henry at Lake George. The war over, he says he began to think of exploring the most unknown parts of England's new territory. In the opinion of a severe critic, Professor Edward G. Bourne, Carver's actual journey was limited to this: he went from Boston to Michi. In the first, the Introduction, he recounts the voyage by packet from Philadelphia to Savannah, whence he proceeds to the Alatamaha River. The second describes East Florida, and the ascent of St. John's River in a small canoe. On reaching Lake George, which is a dilatation of the River St. Juan, his vessel at once diminished to a nutshell on the swelling seas. The Indian whom he engaged to assist him on the upper river becoming weary, Bartram continues on alone, to encamp at an orange gro