PREFACE 



OF THE 



EDITOR. 



I Could have left this volume v^ithout 

 preface, w^as it not for fome circum- 

 ftances, which I am going to mention. 



The author of this account of Norths 

 America is a Swedcy and therefore feems 

 always to (hew a peculiar way of thinking 

 in regard to the Eng/iJJj in general, and in re- 

 gard to the firft proprietors and inhabitants 

 of Philadelphia in particular. The French, 

 the natural enemies of the Englifi, 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 politenei^ of the French in 

 a 2 Canada 



