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Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768

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A travel narrative recounts journeys across the Great Lakes and interior North America, describing forts, lakes, rivers, and Indigenous towns. The author records encounters with Winnebago, Fox, Sauk, and other communities, observations of ceremonies and daily life, natural history anecdotes, and practical details of travel routes and landscapes. Descriptions of forts at strategic lakesides, inland waterways such as the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and interactions during excursions toward European outposts appear alongside reflections on remarkable incidents and local customs. The work blends geographic description, ethnographic observation, and anecdotal storytelling to map a traveler’s route through frontier regions.

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FEW works have had a more rapid sale than the following; two large editions having been disposed of in two years. This induced the proprietors to print a third: but, as soon as this impression was finished, I purchased both the printed copies and the copy-right.

I have since added to the work, some Account of the Author’s life, and an Index to the Travels, which are published separately, for the convenience of the purchasers of the first and second editions; on whom, I was unwilling to raise an extraordinary tax for the third edition.

John Coakley Lettsom.

London, March 30, 1781.