Travels into North America, Volume 1 (of 3)

By PETER KALM, Professor of Oeconomy in the University of Aobo in Swedish Finland , and Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH By JOHN REINHOLD FORSTER, F.A.S.
Enriched with a Map, several Cuts for the Illustration of Natural History, and some additional Notes. VOL. I. WARRINGTON: Printed by WILLIAM EYRES. MDCCLXX.
TO THE HONOURABLE
DAINES BARRINGTON,
One of his Majesty’s Justices of the Grand Sessions for the Counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth.
SIR,
I Presume to prefix your name to a performance which will in some measure display to the British nation, the circumstances of a country which is so happy as to be under its protection.
Accept then, Dear Sir, my earnest wishes for your prosperity, and think me with the truest esteem,
Your most obliged, and obedient humble Servant,
John Reinhold Forster.
The present Volume of Professor Kalm ’s Travels through North America , is originally written in the Swedish language, but was immediately after translated into the German by the two Murray ’s, both of whom are Swedes , and one a pupil of Dr. Linnæus , and therefore we may be sure that this translation corresponds exactly with the original.
He gives you his observations as they occurred day after day, which makes him a faithful relater, notwithstanding it takes away all elegance of style, and often occasions him to make very sudden transitions from subjects very foreign to one another. This defect we will endeavour to supply by a very copious index at the end of the whole work, rather than derange the author’s words, which are the more to be relied on, as being instantly committed to paper warm from his reflections.