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The Hon. Colonel George Craghan, George Galphin, and Lachlan M'Gilwray,
E S Q^U I H E S.*
Gentlemen,
TO you, with the greater! propriety the Following meets are addreffed. Your diftinguifhed abili- ties your thorough acquaintance with the North Ame- rican Indians language, rites, and cuftoms— your long application and fervices in the dangerous fphere of an Indian life, and your fuccefsful management of the fa- vage natives, are well known over all the continent of America.
You often complained how the public had been impofed upon, either by fictitious and fabulous, or very fuperficial and conje&ural accounts of the Indian na-
- The late Sir Wm. Johrifon, Baronet, was another of the Author's
friends, and ftood at the head of the MS. Dedication.
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