IV PREFACE. 



recreation amidst graver toils, and to minister to 

 intellectual and moral soundness, while the scenes 

 in which they are pursued contribute to the in- 

 crease of bodily health and vigour. It is the 

 Author's earnest hope that the volume he now 

 submits to the reader's perusal may conduce in 

 some measure to such important results. 



June, 1861. 



