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try, the Population, Agriculture, Commerce, Customs 

 & Manners of the Inhabitants ; Anecdotes of several 

 Members of the Congress & General Officers in the 

 American Army; and Many other very singular and 

 interesting Occurrences. With a Description of the 

 Indian Nations, the general Face of the Country, 

 Mountains, Forests, Rivers, & the most beautiful, 

 grand, and picturesque Views throughout that vast 

 Continent. 



Likewise, Improvements in Husbandry that may be 

 adopted with great Advantage in Europe. Two vol- 

 umes. London, 1784." 







The edition of Chastellux examined by Dr. Schoepf 

 was the pirated one printed at Cassel. The first trans- 

 lation was in 1787, London and Dublin, supposed to 

 have been the work of George Grieve, who lived for a 

 time at Alexandria in Virginia : 



"Travels in North America in the years 1780, 1781, 

 and 1782. By the Marquis de Chastellux, one of the 

 forty Members of the French Academy, and Major 

 General in the French Army, serving under the Count 

 de Rochambeau. Translated from the French by an 

 English Gentleman, who resided in America at that 

 Period. With Notes by the Translator. 



TroXXo)*' 'ai>$pa>7rG>j/ aorea KCU voov eyva*. OdySSey, B. I. 



Multorumque hominum vidit urbes, & mores cognovit. 



Two volumes." 

 [The notes are of great value.] 



If Schoepf had seen the complete work he would not 

 have been so scandalized. Chastellux is flippant at 

 times, and made no pretence to a knowledge of the 

 exact sciences, but few foreigners at that period had a 



