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Canada fully captivated our auf^gr^ pre- 

 jtfdiced him in their favour, and ajienated 

 his mind, though unjuftly, from the Eng- 

 'lifh* I have therefore now and.th^^^irjijo 

 remarks, been obliged to do the EnglifJi 

 j,uftice y efpecially when I faw the author 

 carried away either by prejudice, mi fin for- 

 mation, or ignorance. He paffed almoft 

 all the winter, between 1748 and 1749, 

 at Raccoon, and converfed there with his 

 countrymen 5 when he came to Phila- 

 delphia he likewife was in the company of 

 the ''Swedes fettled there : theft, no doubt, 

 furnifhed him with many partial and dif- 

 ingenuous accounts of the Englf/k, and 

 gavef ?:i 'HLs" "mind that unfavourable 



wluch he fo often difplays in prejudice of 

 a rtdtion, now at the head of. ^he" en- 

 lightened world, in regard to every reli- 

 gious, moral, and focial virtue.. The 

 author frequently feems to throw 

 beral reflection on the firft 

 Penfyhama, and the quakers ; though they 

 got/that province 'not by "Torce/ 



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