Transcriber's Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Captn. JONATHAN CARVER.
From the Original Picture in the possession of J.C. Lettsom M.D.
Published as the Act directs, by R. Stewart, No. 287, near Gt. Turnstile, Holborn Novr. 16, 1780.
TRAVELS
THROUGH THE
INTERIOR PARTS
OF
NORTH AMERICA,
IN THE
Years 1766, 1767, and 1768.
Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry; H. Payne, inPall-mall; and J. Phillips, in George-Yard,Lombard-Street.
ADVERTISEMENT.
FEW works have had a more rapidsale than the following; two largeeditions having been disposed of in twoyears. This induced the proprietors toprint a third: but, as soon as this impressionwas finished, I purchased both theprinted copies and the copy-right.
I have since added to the work, someAccount of the Author’s life, and anIndex to the Travels, which are publishedseparately, for the convenience of thepurchasers of the first and second editions;on whom, I was unwilling to raisean extraordinary tax for the third edition.
London, March 30, 1781.
TO
JOSEPH BANKS, Esq;
PRESIDENT
OF THE
ROYAL SOCIETY.
SIR,
WHEN the Public are informedthat I have long hadthe Honour of your Acquaintance——thatmy Design in publishingthe following Work has receivedyour Sanction——that the Compositionof it has stood the Test ofyour Judgment——and that it is byyour Permission a Name so deservedlyeminent in the Literary Worldis prefixed to it, I need not be apprehensiveof its Success; as yourPatronage will unquestionably givethem Assurance of its Merit.
For this public Testimony of yourFavour, in which I pride myself,accept, Sir, my most grateful Acknowledgments;and believe me tobe, with great Respect,