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PREFACE. 
|HE following Journal was kept by 
Mr. John Bartram , in liis travels 
from bis own houfe near Philadel- 
phia to Onondago , and Ofwego on 
the Cadarakin or Ontario Lake. It 
is a misfortune to the publick, that this inge- 
nious perfon had not a literal education, it is 
no wonder therefore, that his ftile is not fo clear 
as we could wif h, however, in every piece of 
his, there are evident marks of much good 
fenfe, penetration, and fincerity, join’d to a 
commendable curiofity. It was to gratify this 
difpofition, and that of his correfpondents re- 
queft in England , that he undertook, after 
other expeditions, to accompany Mr. Wei/ar on 
the bufinefs of the government, and was honour- 
ed with the encouragement of fome very judici- 
ous and generous noblemen here ) fince dead, and 
the friendf hip of the skilful left botanifts in Europe. 
It may be proper to inform the reader, that 
the negotiations fet on foot in the conferences 
here related, produced a congrefs at Lancafter 
in Penfilvania , begun the 2 2d of June follow- 
ing, which was attended with the wif h’d for fuc- 
cefs, in an amicable adjuftment of all differences 
between the parties, uuder the mediation of the 
governor of Penfilvania. This treaty was print- 
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