A HISTORY OF EXPLORATIONS AND SETTLEMENTS IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES 1680-1804

A history of American and European explorations of the South and Southwest. This detailed and comprehensive book chronicles the lives and exploits of the main French,Spanish, British Explorers.. The existing American Indians living in settlements in the South are placed in the overall context of the explorations. The narrative of the book centers on the lives of Daniel Boone, Adair, Andrew Ellicott, William Dunbar in the late 1700s and early 1800s. It includes information about the routes of their explorations, their surveying tools, along with the mathematical methods of surveying. It has sample map surveying .problems and mathematical calculations.