preface 



TTJTT was to be expected that the last war in America 

 11 would be the occasion of sundry descriptions of 

 travels, so many and divers Europeans having 

 been thus afforded opportunity to pass through and 

 examine the most widely distant parts of that country. 

 But so far this has not been the case. Only the follow- 

 ing are known to me, as having appeared since that 

 time : 



New Travels through North America, in a Series of Letters, 

 exhibiting the history of the victorious Campaign of the 

 Allied Armies, under his Excellency General Washington 

 and the Count de Rochambeau, in the year 1781 ; inter- 

 spersed with political and philosophical Observations, 

 upon the Genius, temper & customs of the Americans &c. 

 Translated from the Original of the Abbe ROBIN, one 

 of the Chaplains to the French Army in America. Printed 

 by Robert Bell, 1783. 8. no pages. 



Besides observations thrown in, touching the relig- 

 ion, character, and manner of life of the inhabitants, 

 contains chiefly the history of the march of the French 

 army from Rhode Island to Yorktown in Virginia, and 

 of the siege of that place ; the articles of capitulation ; 

 accounts of the unfortunate expedition of General 

 Burgoyne, 1777; and an Appendix, letters of General 

 Washington and Lord Cornwallis. 



