ADVERTISEMENT 



TO THE 



SECOND EDITIONc 



THE Booksellers have desired me to 

 prepare the History of Vermont for another edi- 

 tion. The favorable reception which the pub- 

 lic gave to the work, has lead me to wish to 

 make it more perfect ; and my friends have 

 suggested that it v^^ould be of use to insert a 

 more particular account of the Wars^ \\hich 

 have taken place in this part of the continent. 

 From the earliest settlement of the English and 

 French colonies, contests arose, which gave rise 

 to a course of such events. The passage from 

 the one country to the other, lay through lake 

 Champlain. This circumstance rendered this 

 part of the country the, field of hostile opera- 

 tions, and bloody campaigns. I have endeavor- 

 ed to collect an account of these transactions ; 

 but have not had all the advantages of autlientic 

 documents and public libraries, to make these 

 researches so compleat as I wished. In making 

 these collections, and some necessary additions 

 to the natural and civil history of the State, the 

 sizes of the papers increased so much beyond 

 what I expected, that it was thought best to 

 publish them in two volumes. 



In the narrations, the reader will find a mi- 

 RUttness '^f dates, facts, and circumstances, not 

 common in European productions ; and not 

 very entertaining ia itself. This method was 



