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From the size of this volume, as compared with the variety and extent of the subjects under examination, it will be readily perceived that minuteness of detail has been impossible. In describing the adventures and proceedings of the pioneers in the settlement and civilization of the Western Continent, the interesting nature of the narrative may have led the author, in some instances, away from the immediate object of his attention, viz: the manners, peculiarities, and history of the aboriginal inhabitants. He trusts, however, that where this may appear to be the case, it will generally be found to have resulted from the inseparable manner in which the history of the natives and those who have supplanted them is interwoven. So far as has proved convenient or practicable, localities will be found to be in such a manner pointed out or referred to, that the reader who is ordinarily well acquainted with the geography of the country wiil seldom be at fault. Upon this point, the opening of the fifth book of The True Travels, A dventures, and Observations of Captaine I ohn Smith, is worthy the attention of all historical writers. It runs thus: Before we present you the matters of fact, it is fit to offer to your view the Stage whereon they were acted; for, as Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion, so, History without Geography wandereth as a Vagrant, without a certaine habitation. The works which have been carefully examined by the author in the prosecution of his design, and from which most of the facts em. bodied in this outline of history and description have been obtained, are the following: American Antiquities and Researches into The Natural History of Man; by Jamet the Origin and History of the Red Race; Cowles Prichard; by Alexander VV. Bradford ;L etters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, The Biography and History of the rndians and Co
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