⁂ The remainder of the work, containing the descriptions of Polynesia, Africa, and America, will be brought forward in similar detached portions, for the accommodation of persons who may prefer this mode of publication. The publication in monthly parts will, however, be continued as before.
EXPLORATORY TRAVELS THROUGH the WESTERN TERRITORIES of NORTH AMERICA: comprising a voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the source of that river, and a journey though the interior of Louisiana and the north-eastern provinces of New Spain.
Performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by order of the government of the United States.
By Zebulon Montgomery Pike,
Major 6th Regt. U. S. Infantry. In 1 vol. 4to. with two large maps, price 1l. 16s. bds.
⁂ In these Travels, Major Pike has thrown important light upon the Geography of a vast and interesting tract of country never before explored, and ascertained from actual observation the course and sources of the chief rivers of North America, including those of the Mississippi, the Yellow Stone River, (one of the main branches of the Missouri), the Arkansaw of Louisiana, and the great Rio del Norte of New Mexico.
POLITICAL ESSAY on the KINGDOM of NEW SPAIN, containing Researches relative to the Geography of Mexico, the Extent of its Surface and its political Division into Intendancies, the physical Aspect of the Country, the Population, the State of Agriculture and manufacturing and commercial Industry, the Canals projected between the South Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the Crown Revenues, the quantity of precious Metals which have flowed from Mexico into Europe and Asia since the Discovery of the New Continent, and the Military Defence of New Spain, by Alexander de Humboldt, with physical Sections and Maps founded on Astronomical Observations and Trigonometrical and Barometrical Measurements.
Translated from the original French.
By John Black.
In 2 vols. 8vo. Price 1l. 18s. boards.