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hostile tribes with the small-pox, and that of a dis- 

 tinguished subordinate officer to take revenge on 

 the Indians by permitting an unrestricted sale of 

 rum. 



The two volumes of the present edition have 

 been made uniform with those of the series '' France 

 and England in North America." I hope to con- 

 tinue that series to the period of the extinction of 

 French power on this continent. " The Conspiracy 

 of Pontiac " will then form a sequel ; and its intro- 

 ductory chapters will be, in a certain sense, a sum- 

 mary of what has preceded. This will involve 

 some repetition in the beginning of the book, but I 

 have nevertheless thought it best to let it remain 

 as originally written. 



Boston, 16 September, 1870. 



