/ HAD INTENDED TO DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO 

 WILLIAM PARKER FOULKE, 



Of Philadelphia, 



To whom I am indebted 



for all that a powerful intellect and 



a generous friendship could do, to give practical 



shape to my plans, and to insure success to an enterprise 



tn which I had embarked, with the simple advantage of an aim, 



and with no better guide than the impulse of youth : but 



since it is denied me to pay that tribute of my 



admiration to one of the noblest of men, 



I now inscribe it to his 



MKMORT. 



