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DEDICATION 



To TIMOTHY BRO^VN, Esq. 



OF PECKAM LODGE, SURREY. 



North Hempstead, Long Island, 

 10th Dec. 1818. 

 BIV DEAR SIR, 



The little volume h-^re presented to the public, con- 

 sists, as you will perceive, for the greater and most 

 valuable part, of travelling notes, made by our friend 

 HuLME, whom I had the honour to introduce to you 

 in 1816, and with whom you were so much pleased. 



His activity, which nothing can benumb ; his zeal 

 against the twin monster, tyranny and priestcraft, which 

 nothing can cool ; and his desire to assist in providing a 

 place of retreat for the oppressed, which nothing but 

 the success in the accomplishment can satisfy ; these 

 have induced him to employ almost the whole of his 

 time here in various ways all tending to the same point. 



The Boroughmongers have agents and spies all over 

 the inhabited globe. Here they cannot sell blood: they 

 can only collect information and calumniate the people 

 of both countries. These vermin our friend Jir/is out 

 (as the Hampshire people call it) ; and they hate him 

 as rats hate a tenier. 



Amongst his other labours, he has performed a very 



laborious journey to the Western Countries, and has 



been as far as the Colony of our friend Birkbeck. 



This journey has produced a Journal ; and this Jour- 



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