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Excerpt from The Logs of the Conquest of Canada
Introduction falls naturally into clearly defined divisions. The logs are grouped consecutively, according to campaigns, like the Introduction; each group is arranged alphabetically by ships, and every entry chronologically by days. Reference is therefore easy without a formal index. The Bibliography explains sources used for both Text and Introduction, and contains hints for further study. The Charts and Plan are fully explained in the note on Cartography. There is no glossary of nautical terms, as this would have added greatly to the bulk of the book, if made complete, and because all that the reader requires in this way can be found in good general dictionaries or easily accessible special ones.
Editorial apologies are due to the members of the Cham plain Society for the long delay in the appearance of the book, and thanks to the Council for kindly excusing this delay. Thanks are also gratefully offered to Mr. Julian Corbett for his very valuable advice on several most important points, and to Captain J. G. Boulton, late r.n., for expert Opinion on Cook's charts and 7793 Atlantic Neptune. And the Editor freely acknowledges that his volume could never have come into existence at all without the skilful, generous and constant assistance of Dr. A. G. Doughty, the Dominion Archivist.
Prophecy is never safe in questions of research. But, since all the quite exceptional work, publicity and criticism of the present century have failed to find any other important source of information still inedited, there seems good warrant for believing that the last great gap in the original evidence of the whole subject is closed by the publication of Tbe Log; of tba Conquest of Canada.
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