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While the set of travellers-pioneers brought the important contributions to area studying between Appalachsky mountains and the river Mississipi, Dzhonatan Karver, leaving in 1776 from Boston and following through Olbeni, the Fort-niagara and Machillimakinak, has reached lakes Michigan. It was forwarded through lake, Fox to the river Wisconsin has risen on the river and has gone down on this to last to Mississipi. After that it has risen on Mississipi to falls Sent-Antoni and has wintered at Indians on the river Minnesota. In the spring of 1767 it has done the further travel to the West from lake Top, but could not execute the enterprise conceived by it because of foodstuffs lack.

' I wanted, mainly, he-after I will study customs-wrote, behaviour, languages, soils and natural resources of territories of the various tribes living behind the river Mississipi to define width of North American continent... In its widest part, between 43 and 46 ° with. sh. In a case if I managed to carry out my plan, I intended to address to the government with the offer to base in these new places near to passage Anian any post '.

In mind Karvera have merged mythical ' the Western river ' with the river named it ' Oregan ' as which, undoubtedly, it is necessary to consider as Colombia. It has got some support for the second travel on this river, but it did not manage to make it. Truthfulness Karvera costs under doubt, and is valid, a part of its descriptions, apparently, is simple compilation. If it actually has made the travel it was the first speaking English researcher of territory to the West from the river Mississipi.

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