Re: Did native Americans cultivate Lime tree?

From: Tom McDonald (tmcdonald2672_at_nohormelcharter.net)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:21:03 -0600

Horace LaBadie wrote:
> In article <ctgv3e$pnc$1@kermit.esat.net>, "JMB" <jmb@utvinternet.ie>
> wrote:
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>>"Tom McDonald" <tmcdonald2672@nohormelcharter.net> wrote in message
>>news:sDAKd.18231$iG1.17203@fe03.lga...
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> SNIP
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>>>John,
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>>>This is a link to a searchable English translation of the "Resa". It is in
>>>two volumes, although you are right that the original was three volumes.
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>>Yep. I assume that Inger is reading the Swedish version (in three volumes),
>>although the fact that she is claiming that she is actually reading the
>>fourth volume from the three volume set makes me a little suspicious.
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>>>http://tinyurl.com/5o9t2
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>>>I searched through both for "lime tree", "lime", and lime tree. I found
>>>nothing like what Inger wrote. There was one mention of lime and some
>>>other trees well-spaced apart from each other; but there was nothing like
>>>rows mentioned.
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>>She has since given an ISBN (951-9018-43-3), and when a search is done, this
>>page comes up:
>>http://www.genealogia.fi/kauppa/kirja529.htm
>>I'm too tired to try translating what the page actually says (given that for
>>me to do it, I'd have to look up about 90% of the words in a dictionary!)
>>but I'm not so sure that it is volume four of the 3 volume set for some
>>reason.
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> Try http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/travellit/azentriesl2.html
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> It appears that it is the diary notes that are four volumes.

        Ah. Thanks for that, Horace.

        Do you, or does anyone, know the extent to which entries in the
journal/diary were incorporated in _En Resa Til Norra America_?
Were there major omissions, and/or did Kalm himself 'correct'
things from his journals in writing his 'Resa'? 

-- 
Tom McDonald
http://ahwhatdoiknow.blogspot.com/
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