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A detailed travel account of eastern North America that blends itinerary and landscape description with systematic natural-history observation and botanical collecting aimed at assessing plants for agricultural use. The narrative records plantations, local farming and gardening techniques, commercial and ecclesiastical arrangements, and the manners of various inhabitants, supported by maps, illustrations, and practical notes. Descriptions of settlements, rivers, and notable features serve to evaluate soil, climate, and crop potential, and shipments of seeds and specimens underscore an applied purpose. Observations on commerce and local institutions are woven into recommendations intended to improve cultivation practices and expand natural-history knowledge.

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The whole Sheet Map of a great Part of North America, intended for the Illustration of these Travels, could not be got ready in Time for the first Volume, on Account of its Size and the great many Names of Places brought into it, which must give it a Superiority above any Map hitherto published of this Part of the World: but the Translator hopes, the Public will the more readily excuse this Omission, as it will greatly tend to make the Map more perfect, and as the second Volume will soon appear, where it shall undoubtedly be inserted.

At the same Time he intreats the Encouragers of this Work to compleat the Subscriptions for the second Volume, and to favour him with the Lists of Subscribers as soon as possible; and if any more Gentlemen will favour him with their Subscriptions, he will look upon it as an incentive the more vigorously to go on with the rest of the Publication.

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This book originally appeared in Swedish as En Resa til Norra America (Stockholm, 1753–1761). A Dutch translation, which originally appeared in 1770 under the title Reis door Noord Amerika, is also available from Project Gutenberg.

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In the source text, the first word of every paragraph was set in caps and small caps; this has not been applied in this edition. The long s used in the source has always been rendered with a normal letter s. Words hyphenated at the end of lines have been rejoined, following, as much as possible, the usage encountered in this work.

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