Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Travels of Jonathan Carver
In regard to Keating's Narrative of Long's second expedition it may be added that in it the indebtedness of Carver's Travels to Lahontan was brought to public notice in This is the earliest published impeachment of the originality of the Travels that I have met with. More specific were the charges noted by Henry R. Schoo-lcraft in his Journal under the date of April 9, upon completing a careful perusal of Hennepin, La Hontan, and Carver, undertaken when he expected to be selected to head the expedition to explore the St. Peter's River which was conducted by Long. Schoolcraft writes'
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