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Generally considered one of the best accounts of America from its period; Sabin remarks it is "valuable as exhibiting a view of the colonies immediately preceding the Revolutionary War." Burnaby arrived at Williamsburg in May of 1759, spending almost a year, with an excursion to the back country. On the return journey, Burnaby visited Mt. Vernon, and gives warm notice of Washington. In the spring of 1760 he traveled north through Maryland to Philadelphia, where he spent a month, as also in New York. He then sailed to Newport and went overland to Boston. The present copy is in rare unbound, untrimmed state, and set in custom-made folding cloth case. Howes B995; Sabin 9395.