The Journal of Andrew Ellicott,: Late Commissioner on Behalf of the United States During Part of the Year 1796, the Years 1797, 1798, 1799, and Part of the Year 1800: for Determining the Boundary Between the United States and the Possessions of His Catholic Majesty in America, Containing Occasional Remarks on the Situation, Soil, Rivers, Natural Productions, and Diseases of the Different Countries on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Gulf of Mexico, with Six Maps ... : To which is Added an Appendix, Containing All the Astronomical Observations Made Use of for Determining the Boundary ... Likewise a Great Number of Thermometrical Observations ... |
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... Florida . TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX , Containing all the Astronomical Observations made use of for determining the boundary , with many others , made in different parts of the country for settling the geogra- phical positions of ...
... Florida . TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX , Containing all the Astronomical Observations made use of for determining the boundary , with many others , made in different parts of the country for settling the geogra- phical positions of ...
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... Florida and part of East " Florida . To which is added an Appendix , containing all the Astro- " nomical Observations made use of for determining the Boundary , with many others , made in different parts of the country for settling the ...
... Florida and part of East " Florida . To which is added an Appendix , containing all the Astro- " nomical Observations made use of for determining the Boundary , with many others , made in different parts of the country for settling the ...
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... Florida . The maps belonging to the Journal are all laid down by a scale of 15 miles to an inch , and may easily be annexed to each other by a little attention to the meri- dians , and parallels of latitude . It is stated in the account ...
... Florida . The maps belonging to the Journal are all laid down by a scale of 15 miles to an inch , and may easily be annexed to each other by a little attention to the meri- dians , and parallels of latitude . It is stated in the account ...
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... Florida , and which separates the island of Orleans , from the other pos- sessions of the United States on the east side of the river : but on the other hand , the cession of Louisiana separates the possessions of his Catholic Majesty ...
... Florida , and which separates the island of Orleans , from the other pos- sessions of the United States on the east side of the river : but on the other hand , the cession of Louisiana separates the possessions of his Catholic Majesty ...
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... Florida , ) cucumber tree , ( magnolia acuminata , ) and sassafras , ( laurus sassafras . ) CHAP . II . Occurrences at the mouth of the Ohio , and down the Mississippi to the town of Natchez . ' HE day after we arrived at the confluence ...
... Florida , ) cucumber tree , ( magnolia acuminata , ) and sassafras , ( laurus sassafras . ) CHAP . II . Occurrences at the mouth of the Ohio , and down the Mississippi to the town of Natchez . ' HE day after we arrived at the confluence ...
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