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ii PREFACE. 
ed the fame year at Philadelphia , and is to be 
found in Mr. Golden's hiftory of the 5 Indian 
Nations. A booh worthy of the readers perufal. 
This journal was by feveral accidents prevent- 
ed from arriving in England till June 1750, and 
is now made publick without the author’s know- 
ledge, at the inftance of feveral gentlemen, who 
were more in number than could conveniently 
perufe the manufcript. Had he intended it for 
publication he would have made it probably 
more entertaining and perhaps have retrenched 
fome parts that made the leaft figure in it. 
The friend to whom he fent it, though 
himfelf not at liberty to make any material 
alteration, though as it now appears, many 
who feek only amufement in what they read, 
will in thofe places be difappointed where only 
are treated of the feveral plants with which 
nature has bountifully covered the hills and 
valleys he travers’d, with the various quali- 
ties of the foil and climate. 
But when it is confider’d of how great im- 
portance an intimate acquaintance with the na- 
tural ftate of this vaft wildernefs, and its capa- 
city of further improvement is to Great Britain , 
and how little the endeavours of our country- 
men have yet advanced this work, while we are 
indebted to our moft dangerous rivals for the 
little we do know, who will, if poffible, repay 
themfelves by excluding us from all we do not 
actually cultivate, and leave us that only while 
they want power to take it from us : I cannot 
