UPPER CANADA, IN THE YEARS 1795, 1796, AND 1797; BY THE DUKE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT LIANCOURT. WITH AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF LOWER CANADA... SECOND EDITION. VOL. I. London: Printed by T. Gillet, Salisbury-Square, FOR R. PHILLIPS, NO. 71, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; SOLD BY: BY CARPENTER AND CO. OLD BOND-STREET.. 1800... Redass Mr. 12 4 22 TH HE Duke de la ROCHEFOUCAULT LIANCOURT, a man, who, at all times, has been diftinguished as one of the moft amiable, the moft virtuous, and the beft informed of all the French nobility, has made a journey for philofophical and commercial obfervation throughout a great part of North America, and has communicated the fubftance of his obfervations to the World, in the valuable Narrative which is here prefented to the British Public. Although no longer a dependency of the British Empire, the thirteen provinces of the American Commonwealth are not regarded by Britons, as a land of ftrangers. The mutual animofities of the war of the American revolution are already extinguished. Britons and Americans now think of each other only as brethren; a kindred defcent, a common language, congenial character, a ftrong alliance of inftitutions, arts, and manners, render them to one another reciprocally interefting, perhaps much more than, in fimilar circumstances, any third nation would be to either. As the hiftory of the Spaniards, who firft entered South America,, engages our curiofity more than that of the horses, the dogs, or the fugar-canes, which they carried with them; as the hiftory of the nations of polished Europe is more interefting than that of the Tartars and Tongufi; as accounts of the fortunes of |