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PREFACE 



TO THE 



THIRD PART. 



449. In giving an account of the United States oi' 

 America, it would not have been proper to omit saying 

 something of the Western Countries, the Newest of the 

 New Worlds, to which so many thousands and hun- 

 dreds of thousands are flocking, and towards which 

 the ^vritings of Mr. Birkbeck have, of late, drawn the 

 pointed attention of all those Englishmen, who, having 

 something left to be robbed of, and wishing to preserve 

 it, are looking towards America as a place of refuge 

 from the Boroughmongers and the Holy Alliance, 

 •which latter, to make the compart complete, seems to 

 want nothing but the accession of His Satanic Majesty. 



450. I could not go to the Western Countries ; and, 

 the accounts of others were seldom to be rehed on; 

 because, scarcely any man goes thither without some 

 degree of partiality, or comes back without being 

 tainted with some little matter, at least, of self-interest. 

 Yet, it was desirable to make an attempt, at least, 

 towards settling the question : " Whether the Atlantic, 

 " or the Western, Countries were the best for English. 

 *' Farmers to settle in." Therefore, when Mr. Hulmb 

 proposed to make a Western Tour, I was very much 



