Extracts from letters written, on a journey to the western parts of the United States : and during a residence in the Illinois Territory / by an English farmer, 1818.

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Extracts from letters written, on a journey to the western parts of the United States : and during a residence in the Illinois Territory / by an English farmer, 1818.

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Volume containing extracts of seventeen letters, May 18, 1817-Oct. 30, 1818, and a journal, Dec. 7, 1817-Feb. 26, 1818, sent by Pym to unnamed English correspondents, regarding his journey from Richmond, Va., to southeastern Illinois, via Pittsburgh and Cincinnati; the settlement of the Birbeck colony at English Prairie; and travels in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky.

1 v. ([2], iii, [1], 127 p.), bound : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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