 | William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 630 pages
...or bead. From the beft accounts that can be obtained from the Indians, -we learn that the four mod capital rivers on the continent of North America, viz. the St. Lawrence, the Miffiffippi, the river Bourbon, and the Oregon, or the river of the Weft, have their fources in the... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 644 pages
...bead. From the bed accounts that can be obtained from the Indians, we learn that the four moft capita] rivers on the continent of North America, viz. the St. Lawrence, the Miffiffiippi, the river Bourbon, tnd the Oregon, or the river of the Well, have their fources in the... | |
 | Jonathan Carver - Dakota language - 1802 - 330 pages
...x from thefe nations, together with my own obfcrva, tions, tions, I have learned that the four moft capital rivers on the Continent of North America, viz. the St. Lawrence, the Miffiiippi, the river Bourbon, and the Oregon or the river of the Weft (as I hinted in my introduction)... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Atlases - 1804 - 706 pages
...attacks of either man or beast. From the best accounts that can be obtained from the Indians, we learn that the four most capital rivers on the continent of North America, viz. the St. Lawrence, the Missisippi, the river Bourbon, and the Oregon, or the river of the west, have their sources in the... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 472 pages
...communication with the lakes into the interior country to a vast extent. Career, indeed, asserts, that the four capital rivers on the continent of North America^ viz. the St. Lawrence, Mississippi, Bourbon, aud Oregon, or river of the west, have their sources very near each other: those... | |
 | William Winterbotham - United States - 1819 - 606 pages
...or beaft. From the belt accounts that can be obtained from the Indians, we leara that the four inoft capital rivers on the continent of North America* viz. the St. Lawrence, the MuFiGippi, the river Bourbon, and the Oregon, or the river of the Weft, have their fources in the fame... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell - American fiction - 1840 - 586 pages
...the Chipeway language, and inhabit the heads of the river Bourbon ; — I say, from these nations, together with my own observations, I have learned,...capital rivers on the continent of North America, namely, the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the river Bourbon, and the Oregan, or the River of the West,... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell - American fiction - 1840 - 584 pages
...observations, I have learned, that the four most capital rivers on the continent of North America, namely, the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the river Bourbon, and the Oregon, or the River of the West, have their sources in the same neighbourhood. The waters of the three former are within thirty miles... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1842 - 390 pages
...observations, I have- learned that the four most capital rivers on the Continent of North America, namely, the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the River Bourbon, and the Oregon, or the River of the West, have their sources in the same neighbourhood. The waters of the three former are within thirty miles... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1843 - 388 pages
...speak the Chippeway language and inhabit the heads of the River Bourbon ; I say from these nations, together with my own observations, I have learned...capital rivers on the Continent of North America, namely, the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the River Bourbon, and the Oregon, or the River of the West,... | |
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I say from these natives, together with my own observations, I have learned that the four most capital rivers on the continent of North America, viz. : the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the River Bourbon and the Oregon, or the River of the West (as I... 
