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T will not, I preume, be conidered as altogether unneceary or unintereting, if I offer to the public attention a ummary account of my voyages previous to that which is the ubject of this volume.

I had been already engaged in various commercial undertakings on the North-Wet coat of America, during a period of even years: But I never ceaed to blend the zeal of my naval character with the pirit of commercial enterprize,