. Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. inexhauftible fourceof riches to that people who fhall be fofortunate as to poffefs it, than on the ftyleor compofition; and more careful to ren-der his language intelligible and explicit,than fmooth and fiorid. ^F IP^ [ xvi ] Manners, Cuftoms, and Languages of the Indians, and to complete the whole, add a Vocabulary of the Words moftly in ufe among them. And here it is neceflarj to befpeak thecandour of the learned part of my Readersin the perufal of it, as it is the produc-tion of a perfon unufed, from
. Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. inexhauftible fourceof riches to that people who fhall be fofortunate as to poffefs it, than on the ftyleor compofition; and more careful to ren-der his language intelligible and explicit,than fmooth and fiorid. ^F IP^ [ xvi ] Manners, Cuftoms, and Languages of the Indians, and to complete the whole, add a Vocabulary of the Words moftly in ufe among them. And here it is neceflarj to befpeak thecandour of the learned part of my Readersin the perufal of it, as it is the produc-tion of a perfon unufed, from oppofiteavocations, to literary purfuits. He there-fore begs they would not examine it withtoo critical an eye; efpecially when he •aiTures them that his attention has beenmore employed on giving a jufl defcrip-tion of a country that promifes, in fomefuture period, to be an inexhauftible fourceof riches to that people who ihall be fofortunate as to polTefs it, than on the flyleoi compofition; and more careful to ren-der his language intelligible and explicit,than fmooth and \ ? AJOURNAL OF THE TRAVELS, WITH A DESCRIPTION O F T H E COUNTRY, LAKES, Sec. IN June 1766, I fet out from Boflon,and proceeded by way of Albany andNiagara, to MichlUimackinac; a Fortiituated between the Lakes Huron andAlichigan, and dlftant from Boflon 1300miles. This being the uttermofl of ourfactories towards the north-weft, I con-fidered it as the mofl convenient placefrom whence I could begin my intendedprogrefs, and enter at once into the Re-gions I deiigned to explore. Referring my Readers to the publica-tions already extant for an Account ofthofe Parts of North America, that, fromB lying [ i8 ] lying adjacent to the Back-Settlements, have been frequently defcrlbed, I (hall confine myielt to a Defcription of the more interior parts of it, which having been but feldom viiited, are confequently but little known. In doing this, I fliall in no in- flance exceed the bounds of truth, or have rec
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