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               INTRODUCTION.

The Journals of Major Robert Rogers, giving the

details of his services as a partisan officer in the

French and Indian war of 1755-60, have been very

generally regarded as forming a work of unquestion-

able historical value. The volume does not profess

to be in any sense, a general history of the events of

that war, nor a connected account of the military

operations of a particular frontier; but simply a nar-

rative of what he himself saw and did, with here

and there a brief allusion to the doings of others,

where they seemed in some way to have had relation

to his own. Being evidently written with a view of promoting his own military reputation, as he may

have doubtless felt that he deserved, it would be

surprising if he had been uniformly as fair in his

account of others as of himself, or if his narratives