HISTORICAL ACCOUNT / OF DISCOVERIES AND TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA; INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, THE SHOres of the WITH OBSERVATIONS ON EMIGRATION. BY HUGH MURRAY, ESQ., F. R. S. E., Author of Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, Asia, &c. Ellustrated by a Map of North America. BOL VOL. I. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN; AND OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH. 1829. 616. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Historical Account of Discoveries in North America, including a View of the Actual State of that Continent, is on the same plan with the former works of the Author on Discoveries in Africa and in Asia. These works having been favourably received, he has been led to believe that the present one might be equally acceptable to those readers who take an interest in the progress of geographical discovery and the present state of the world. The series of bold adventure by which the coasts of North America were discovered and its colonies founded; the daring attempts to find a Northern Passage by its arctic shores; the unparalleled growth and extending power of the United States; with the openings which America affords to our emigrant population, all these circumstances conspire to render that continent an object of peculiar interest. |