55 

 THE PERAMBULATOR. 



NO. I. 



Having introduced ourselves to the public in one 

 number of our Museum, we wish to rise in their esteem 

 upon increased acquaintance. We feel no doubt of the 

 indulgence of our readers ; and have no puffs to offer, 

 of the high encomiums we have received, or expect to 

 receive, from critics and connoisseurs. But though 

 young and unpretending editors, we are not unambi- 

 tious, and we will bear the smile which may arise at 

 our expense, when we say, that our ambition is set 

 pretty high. Our progress may be slow, our difficulties 

 may be great, greater perhaps than we anticipate. But 

 we aim not only at amusing, and perhaps informing our 

 readers; we look to a permanent place upon their 

 library shelves. It shall not be for want of industry 

 and exertion if our Museum does not correspond to its 

 title : if most or all of what is curious and interesting in 

 our town and neighbourhood, and, as we proceed, in a 

 more extensive range through the South of Devon : it 

 shall not be our fault if all these are not found in our 

 pages. Nay we do not mean to confine ourselves to 

 the present; we shall pay especial attention to objects 

 of record ; and preserve to the presence of our readers 

 those objects of their remembrance which the progress 

 of improvement in our town, or other causes, have 

 swept away. 



We said we are young and unpretending, but not 

 unambitious, and we stated the object of our ambition. 

 We shall not say, in the usual style of new periodicals, 

 that our plan is to be gradually developed; but fairly 

 confess, that we hope our plan, and its execution will 

 be gradually improved. And for this purpose we shall 

 feel truly obliged to any persons who will point out to 

 us* practical means of rendering our work more useful 

 or acceptable to the public. We do not mean this as a 

 petition for patronage, or a complaint of the want of it, 



*Post Paid, of course. Printer's Devil. 



