Excerpt from New Voyages to North-America, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing an Account of the Several Nations of That Vast Continent; Their Customs, Commerce, and Way of Navigation Upon the Lakes and Rivers; The Several Attempts of the English and French to Dispossess One Another
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