Excerpt from Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice, Made by Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels From Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada: To Which Is Annex'd, a Curious Account of the Cataracts at Niagara This journal was by feveral accidents prevent ed from arriving in England till june 1750, and is now made publick without the author's know ledge, at the inftance of feveral gentlemen, who were more in number than could conveniently perufe the manufcript. Had he intended it for publication he would have made it probably more entertaining and perhaps have retrenched fome parts that made the leaft figure in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.