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TO 



MY MOTHER, 

 MRS. LYDIA HEART. 



THODGH a name conspicuous in the scientific world might add 

 popularity to this little work now offered to the public, affection for 

 my venerable parent induces me to dedicate to her, what will, to 

 her, be interesting, however it may be regarded by the severe eye 

 of criticism. I have, within the past year, seen in my sister's dedi- 

 cation to our aged Mother, of " The History of the Republic of 

 America," that these marks of affectionate respect from her children 

 have the power of awakening more vivid emotions in her breast, 

 than most events connected with a world, which has almost vanish- 

 ed from her sight, in the brighter visions of eternity ; that ehe may 

 find the pious sentiments imbibed from herself, in some degree re- 

 flected from the following pages, is the wish of her 



DAUGHTER, 



ALMIRA H. LINCOLN. 



Troy Female Seminary, April 20, 1829. 



