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52 the habit of noting down the events of the day in a simple, straightforward manner, so that many manuscripts of his were long extant, presenting often different versions of the same journey. 'The earlier antiquaries published these as chance brought them to their notice. The official reports themselves were preserved in the colonial archives, and are published in the Pennsylvania and New York collections. It is believed that this is the first attempt to bring together a selection of Croghan material that in any adequate manner outlines his interesting career. The chronological extent of these journals (from 1750- 1765) makes those which follow—Post's of 1758; and Morris's of 1764—interludes in the events which Croghan describes, thus throwing additional light upon the same period and the same range of territory. R.G.T. ———