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Optimistic travel plan thru North America...

Item # 709620
January 13, 1784
THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, Jan. 13, 1784  The back page has a report noting in part: "There is a party now forming of men...for a tour through the whole continent of North America...The scheme is to travel from Quebec...to the Mississippi which never was yet discovered or laid down, further than the Falls of St. Anthony...turn due West till they meet the Pacific Ocean; after that to follow the coast North East in order to try for the North West Passage...return to the Mississippi & go down that river to New Orleans...up the Ohio...enter Georgia by the back frontier & then travel through all the peopled territories of the United States..." with much more.
Eight pages, 8 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches, very nice condition.

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