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Canada fully captivated our author, pre- 

 judiced him In their favour, and alienated 

 his mind, though unjuftly, from the Eng- 

 lijh. I have therefore now and then, in 

 remarks* been obliged to do the Engliflo 

 juftice, efpecially when I faw the author 

 carried away cither by prejudice, mill n for- 

 mation, or ignorance. He pafled almofl 

 all the winter, between 1748 and 1749, 

 at Raccoon y and converfed there with his 

 countrymen ; when he came to Phila- 

 delphia he likewife was in the company of 

 the Sivedcs fettled there : thefe, no doubt, 

 furnifhed him with many partial and dif- 

 ingenuous accounts of the Englijhj and 

 gave his mind that unfavourable biafs 

 which he fo often difplays in prejudice of 

 a nation, now at the .head of the en- 

 lightened world, in regard to every reli- 

 gious, mora], and focial virtue. The 

 author frequently feems to throw an illi- 

 beral refied:ion on the firft proprietors of 

 Penjylvania, and the quakers ; though they 

 got that province not by force, but by a 

 charter from the Englijh government, to 

 whom the Swedes gave it up by virtue of 

 a public treaty. Prompted by fuch falfe 



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