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LANDSCAPE 



ARCH. 



LIBRARY 



TO 



MR JOHN DEANS, 



PENSION, EAST LOTHIAN. 



MY DEAR DEANS, 



I DEDICATE the following tour to you, who had an 

 opportunity of judging of many of the scenes and 

 occurrences which I have described. Your candour 

 and honesty have long been known to me, and I 

 hope the sentiments and the feelings expressed in the 

 succeeding pages, will be found to accord with your 

 own character. 



It has been said that I was appointed by a party of 

 East Lothian farmers to visit and report on the Cana- 

 das and the United States ; but nothing could be more 

 unfounded. A younger brother having expressed a 

 wish to try his fortune as an American farmer, I 

 resolved to explore the country for the purpose of 

 enabling me to give an opinion on the step which he 

 contemplated. With this single object in view, my 

 Transatlantic excursion was originally planned, and 



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