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The present volume is intended to give a general idea of the progress of exploration in the districts now forming Canada and the United States, with the general advance of the white man westwards. The chief authorities consulted in the preparation of the "Heroes of the Exodus to the West" were the reports to their superiors of the early Jesuit missionaries; George Bancroft's "History of the United States; Bryant's "Popular History of the United States;" and Bancroft's "Native Races of the Pacific." But reference has also been made to the original works of all the great travelers in the districts under notice; while much valuable geographical information has been culled from the Journals of the learned Societies both of England and America, and from Réclus's "Geógraphie Universelle."

N. D'ANVERS.

, 1884.