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 4 Journals of Major Robert Rogers.

were in all respects such as another, as well ac-

quainted with every fact and circumstance, and with-

out personal motives, would have have written. An

author in describing his own acts, does not naturally

seek to expose his own errors, nor always to conceal

those of others; nor can we expect, in scenes and

circumstances like those which our author describes,

that no jealousies, or rivalries, or disappointments

were encountered, that might sometimes influence his conduct,

and show themselves in his writings.

Such, upon several occasions, will be noticed by the

careful reader of his Journals nor should they be re-

garded as exceptional, in publications of this class,

where the exploits of the written form the principal theme.

The general tenor of the narrative, and details

in abundance, are however will verified by independent authorities, and justify the belief that the accounts

of services here given, are in the main reliable and that the work fairly presents the condition of affairs,

as they existed, and the events, as they occurred, in

the time and manner described.

In annotating this work for a new edition, no