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Excerpt from An Historical and Descriptive Account of British America, Vol. 1 of 2
The author, thus deeply impressed with the im portance Of his task, has anxiously sought every means of rendering its performance complete and satisfactory.' In tracing the condition and history of the aboriginal tribes, as in?uenced by the early settlement of Europeans, he has had access to ex tensive works and collections in the French lan guage, to which forme'r writers appear to have been strangers. He has devoted much attention to the statistics and present state of the colonies; an na. Dertaking which was attended with considerable difficulty, on account of the rapid changes which have recently occurred, and rendered all previous information in a great measure useless. Hence, besides the works of Bouchette, m'gregor, Martin, and others, it was necessary to examine the tables published by the Board of Trade, the voluminous reports laid before Parliament, and to Compare them with the narratives of the latest travellers and res idents.
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