HISTORICAL JOURNAL 



O F A 



VOYAGE to AMERICA; 



AddrefTed to the 

 DUCHESS of LESGUIERES. 



LETTER FIRST.* 



Madam, Rochefort^ June 30th, 1720.^ 



YO U were pleafed to exprefs a defire I mould 

 write you regularly by every opportunity I 

 could find, and 1 have accordingly given you my 

 promife, becaufe I am not capable of refilling you 

 any thing ; but I am greatly afraid you will foon 

 grow weary of receiving my letters : for I can hardly 

 perfuade myfelf you will find them near fo intereft- 

 ing as you may imagine they ought to be. In a 

 word, you have laid your account with a continued 

 journal \ but in the firft place, I forefee that the 

 meflengers, by whofe hands I muft tranfmit my 

 letters to you, will never be over and above exact in 

 conveying them, and may poffibly fometimes fail 

 in delivering them altogether ; in which cafe, you 

 can pnly have a mutilated and imperfect journal : 



befides, 



