was 
- 
oy 
™ 
; 
PREFACE. 
* 
= 
As two volumes of this work are now completed, the 
from our soelisaies sai ‘ olle 
est, th and the Sout Pom and even occasionally from 
other countries, so that the Editor fools himself justified in 
pelieving, that this work is regarded as a national Journal. 
{f therefore this view be one which patriotic and honoura- 
ble men can approve, and if the execution has in any good 
— corresponded with the design, it is to be hoped 
that the American public will not permit the work to 
languish, for want of pecuniary patronage. This is the on- 
ly material difficulty which it has encountered, and this is 
far from being removed. A more extended patronage is in- — 
dispensable to its permanent establishment, and, should it 
who can wonder if our national charac- 
ter should be even more severely (perhaps even more de- 
: lan ever. 
called upon to state the pecunia- 
appropriate | sponsibilities of the 
not lightly to abandon the oe 
He will peste: cintit it is ascertained, whether the va 
somerioats Republié, with ten millions of inhabitants, with 
= 
g 
a 
na 
ao. 
oO 
oe 
ons, and with immensely diversified interests, growing out 
re) those physical resources, which the bounty of God has 
given us, will permit this effort, devoted to the advancement 
of its wealth and its power, its honor and its dignity, to be- 
come abortive, with the gloomy presage that it ma: 
ts ea any similar enterprize can be successfully pros- 
ovale College, November 1, 1820. 
