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ences at first sight which might escape a traveler of 

 another and antagonistic race. He has brought with 

 him, but little modified or impaired, his whole in 

 heritance of English ideas and predilections, and 

 much of what he sees affects him like a memory. 

 It is his own past, his ante-natal life, and his long- 

 buried ancestors look through his eyes and perceive 

 with his sense. 



I have attempted only the surface, and to express 

 my own first day's uncloyed and unalloyed satisfac 

 tion. Of course I have put these things through my 

 own processes and given them my own coloring (as 

 who would not), and if other travelers do not find 

 what I did, it is no fault of mine ; or if the " Brit 

 ishers " do not deserve all the pleasant things I say 

 of them, why then so much the worse for them. 



In fact, if it shall appear that I have treated this 

 part in the same spirit that I have the themes in the 

 other chapters, reporting only such things as im 

 pressed me and stuck to me and tasted good, I shall 

 be satisfied. 

 Esopus-ON-HuusoN, November, 1875. 



