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• Title:A journal of voyages and travels in the interiour of North America : between the 47th and 58th degrees of north latitude, extending from Montreal nearly to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of about 5,000 miles, including an account of the principal occurrences, during a residence of nineteen years, in different parts of the country ; to which are added, a concise description of the face of the country, its inhabitants, their manners, customs, laws, religion, etc. and considerable specimens of the two languages, most extensively spoken : together with an account of the principal animals, to be found in the forests and prairies of this extensive region : illustrated by a map of the country / by Daniel Williams Harmon, a partner in the North West Company.
  
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• Variant Title: Harmon's journal
  
• Author/Creator:Harmon, Daniel Williams, 1778-1843.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Haskel, Daniel, 1784-1848.
  Leney, William Satchwell, 1769-1831, engraver.
  Flagg and Gould (Andover, Mass.), printer.
  Annin & Smith, engraver.
  Thomas K. Fleming Collection of British Columbia History.
  
• Published/Created:Andover : Printed by Flagg and Gould., 1820.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC3212.1 .H37 1820
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Indians of North America--Canada.
  Cree language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
  Carrier language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
  Northwest, Canadian--Description and travel.
  
• Description:432 p., [2] p. of plates (1 folded) : map, illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo in 4s).
  
• Series:Trailmakers of Canada.
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Notes:"Preface, by the editor.", p. [v]-xxiii, signed: Daniel Haskel.
  Engravings by William Satchwell Leney and Annin & Smith.
  Errata list affixed to back endpaper.
  
• Cited in:Wagner-Camp-Becker, 17
  Graff Coll., 1786
  Sabin, 30404
  Pilling, J.C. Bibl. Algonquian lang., p. 222
  Streeter Americana, 3692
  
• Contents:Journal (p. [25]-273)
  Character of the Canadian voyagers (p. [275]-277)
  An account of the Indians living west of the Rocky Mountain (p. [279]-310)
  A general account of the Indians on the east side of the Rocky Mountain (p. [311]-383)
  A specimen of the Cree or Knisteneux tongue (p. [385]-401)
  Numerical terms of the Crees or Knisteneux (p. [402]-403)
  A specimen of the Tacully or Carrier tongue (p. 403-[413])
  A concise account of the principal animals which are found in the north western part of North America (p. [415]-432).