TO 



MY WORTHY AND HONOURED FRIEND, 



MR J. W. MERCHANT IN LONDON. 



SIR, 



As this compendious volume of my North- 

 ern Memoirs contains nothing of obscenity 

 whereat I may blush, so I hope no absurdi- 

 ty worthy your reprehension : Yet because 

 modelized in the plain methods of an Eng- 

 lish dress, will perhaps occasion the sciolist 

 to interpret me but a junior academian ; 

 and truly so he may, if when to consider my 

 slender education. However, I have endea- 

 voured, as much as in me lies, to avoid all 

 prolixity, and long parentheses, which pos- 

 sibly would relish unpleasant in your ear ; 

 so have I abhorred repeated tautologies, lest 

 fearing to nauseate and surfeit your appe- 

 tite. 



