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PREFACE 



OF THE 



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1 COULD have left this volume without 

 preface, was it not for fome circum- 

 ftances, which I am going to mention, 



THE author of this account of North* 

 America is a Swede, and therefore feems 

 always to (hew a peculiar way of thinking 

 in regard to the Englijh in general, and in re- 

 gard to the firft proprietors and inhabitants 

 of Philadelphia in particular. The French, 

 the natural enemies of the Englifh, have, 

 for upwards of a century, been the allies of 

 the Swedes, who therefore are in general 

 more fond of them than of the Englijh. 

 The external politenefs of the French in 

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