INTRODUCTION. yj 



ready to check insult, and the subjects of a 

 country ought to be ready to give every 

 assistance ; and no term of years, so long 

 as God gives me health and strength to do 

 it, shall prevent me, if I am called upon, 



I flatter myself that my experience in 

 America will enable me to give a clear 

 account of the inhabited parts ; of which it 

 is my intention to describe with candour 

 the soil and climate, and the manners and 

 customs of the people. My whole wish 

 is to relate what I have seen in America, 

 in such a plain, familiar style, as shall be 

 perfectly intelligible to the reader. 



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