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Excerpt from Three Years Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America, for More Than Five Thousand Miles: Containing an Account of the Great Lakes, and All the Lakes, Islands, and Rivers, Cataracts, Mountains, Minerals, Soil and Vegetable Productions of the North-West Regions of That Vast Continent
Confider (having rendered my country fome fervices da 11mg the war) \how I might continue {till ferviceable, and contribute, as much as lay ln my power, to make that val't acquifition of territory, gained by Great Bri tam, in North America, advantageous to it. It appear ed to me indifpenfably needful, that' Government {heuld be acquainted, in the firf't place, With the true {tate' of the dominions they were now become poiieed of. To this purpofe, I determined, as the next proof of my zeal, to explore the molt uhknown parts of them, and to fp'are no trouble or expence in acquiring a know iledge that promifed to be fo ufeful to my countrymen. I knew that many obfiruetions would arife to my icheme from the want of good Maps and Charts; for the French, W hilfl they retained their power in North America, had taken every artful method to keep all other nations, particularly the Englifh, 1n 1gnorance of the concerns of the interior parts of it: and to ao scomplifh this defign With the greater certainty, they. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
