[In the text a heavy cross-bar is the reference to notes, by 

 page.] 



Preface The continuation of the title of the Abbe 

 Robin's New Travels is : ' Also Narratives of the cap- 

 ture of General Burgoyne, and Lord Cornwallis, with 

 their armies, and a variety of interesting particulars, 

 which occurred in the course of the War in America. 

 Translated from the original of the Abbe Robin, one of 

 the chaplains to the French Army in America. 

 From such events let boastful Nations know, 

 Jove lays the pride of haughtiest monarchs low. 



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Basins by Young. 

 Philadelphia. 

 Printed and sold by Robert Bell in Third-street. 



1783 Price, Two Thirds of a Dollar." 

 [The translation by Philip Freneau.] 



The picturesque Smyth (who is to be found in the 

 biographical dictionaries under the name Stuart, having 

 set up claim to descent from the Duke of Monmouth) 

 offers material for a dissertation. A contemporary de- 

 tractor charged him with having been a coachman in 

 Virginia. Smyth's narrative is excellent reading ; a 

 close investigation alone would determine whether he 

 was not often wide of the truth. Defoe could have 

 shaped his Travels into a novel of impeccable veri- 

 similitude. His title-page runs : 



" A Tour in the United States of America, contain- 

 ing an Account of the Present Situation of that Coun- 

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