yiii PREFACE. 



interesting, though not the most practically valuable, part of our 

 journey. I was in the habit of writing my diary in the form of 

 a letter, to be sent as occasion offered to friends at home. It is 

 from this desultory letter-diary, with such revision and extension 

 and filling up of gaps as my memory and pocket-book notes 

 afford, that this book has been now made. 



FRED. LAW OLMSTED. 



TOSOMOCK FARM, SOUTHSIDE, > 

 Staten Island, 1859. j 



