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NUMBER II.

Of the HISTORY and travels,

Of HECTOR MACLEAN,

Late SALIOR.

THE

PREFACE.

IN my firſt number, I gave the facts out like any other of the languages of a learned man, as my education is but very ſmall, (but bleſſed be God) my memory is very good, and what I treat of is undoubted facts, they are not adorned with that ſtile of eloqnence wich Authors in this preſent age is capable of. But they are dilightful truths, and not founded upon falſhoods. As too many impoſes on the public, in :his preſent age, my condition of life call’s upon me to do all I am capible of in this tranſitory life. I do not freet of my misfortune as I am deprived of the precious benefite of my eye ſight, as better chriſtian has ſufered much more. So that whatſoever condition I am in,