first edition. A history and description of British North America, by a French and Indian War major from New Hampshire. Concludes with a 60-page chapter titled "Customs, Manners &c of the Indians." "Based largely on personal knowledge, this was the first geographical account of the American interior after England had wrested it from France, and, aside from those by Pittman and Hutchins, the most accurate of the period"--Howes R418 ("b"). Field 1316; Lande 761; Sabin 72723; Streeter sale II:1028.
