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The preceding story lays no claim to value or accuracy in its

descriptions of the North-West Territories I have never seen that

portion of our country; and to endeavour to describe faithfully a

region of which I have only a hearsay knowledge would be foolish

I have, therefore, arranged the geography of the Territories to suit

my own conveniences I speak of places that no one, will be able to

find upon maps of the present or of the future Wherever I want a

valley or a swamp, I put the same; and I have taken the same liberty

with respect to hills or waterfalls, The birds, and in some instances

the plants and flowers of the prairies, I have also made to order

I present soe array of fact I do

not feel bound, however, to state which is the fact, and which the

fiction

I have not aie of

scene, incident and colour are the points which I had in view There

is not any shaes, with little change from a small

volues in no way