146 jLogan, Cresap, and Rogen, 



deed, such a speech was ever sent by Logan. The 

 following observations will show, that my suspicion is 

 not without foundation. 



In the course of my inquiries relative to this subject, 

 I met with a small work, of about one hundred pages, 

 entitled New Travels through North- America : in a 

 Series of Letters^ &c., Sec. Translated from the original 

 of the Abbe Robin ; one of the chaplains to the French 

 army in America. — This translation was printed at Phi- 

 ladelphia, in 1783*. The original work I have not been 

 able to procure. 



This little work has not, perhaps, any very high claims 

 to the notice of the naturalist, the philosopher, or the 

 historian. It is, however, worthy of perusal, and con- 

 tains some facts, especially relative to the American re- 

 volution, which I have not met with elsewhere. 



In the twelfth letter, tlie author gives the character of 

 general Burgoyne. And in this letter, too, we find a 

 speech of Logan, or, as Robin calls him, Lonan. It 

 may be curious, besides giving the speech at large, to 

 mention the manner in which it is brought fonvard by 

 our author. 



** Burgoyne, formed by nature with an active, enter- 

 prising disposition, animated by a most extravagant love 



* I had some acquaintance with the translator ; but I was very 

 young at the time ; and now, at the distance of twenty-three 

 years, I do not recollect his name. He was a Frenchman, who 

 appeared to understand the English language very well. 



