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me, and I cenfure the Condud of others, that are 

 capable of doing me an injury by indirect Methods. 

 I am not influenced by that principle of Intereft 

 md Party-making, that is the rule of fome folks 

 words. I facrifice all to the love of Truth, and 

 write with no other view, than to give you a juft 

 Representation of things as they are. 5 Tis beneath 

 me to mince or alter the matter of fad, containd 

 either in the Letters I fent you fome ten or twelve 

 years agoe, or in thefe Memoirs. In the courfe of 

 my Voyages and Travels, I took care to keep parti- 

 cular Journals of everything; but a minute relati- 

 on of all Particulars., would be irkfom to you, be- 

 fides, that the trouble of taking a copy of the Jour- 

 nals, before I have an opportunity of fhewing you 

 the Original, would require more time than I can 

 well fpare. In thefe Memoirs you'll find as much 

 as will ferve to form a perfed Idea of the vaft Con- 

 tinent of North- America. In the courfe of our Cor- 

 refpondence from the year 1683, to this time, I fent 

 you five and twenty Letters, of all which I have 

 kept a double very carefully. My only view in wri- 

 ting of thefe Letters, was to inform you of the moil: 

 effential things ; for I was unwilling to perplex and 

 confound your Thoughts, with an infinity of un- 

 common things, that have happen'd in that Coun- 

 try, If you'll confult my Maps, as you read the 

 2bovemention ? d Letters, you'll find a juft Reprefen- 

 tation of ail the places I have fpoke of. Thefe Maps 

 are very particular, and I dare allure you, they are 

 the corrected yet extant. My Voyage upon the Long 

 River, gave mean opportunity of making that lit- 

 tle Map, which I fent you from Mijjilimakinac in 

 1699, with my fixteenth Letter. *Tis true, it gives 

 only a bare Defcription of that River, and the Ri- 

 ver of the Miffburis ; But it required more time than 

 I could fpare, to mike it more compleat, by a 

 knowledge of the adjacent Countries, which have 



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