LETTERS OF HIBERMCUS. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW-YORK STATESMAN 



June 9th, 1820. 

 Sir, 



I SEND you extracts of letters which T have 

 received from a highly respectable foreigner, on 

 the subject of the Western and Northern Canals. 

 It appears that he is on a tour of observation — my 

 acquaintance with him commenced last autumn, 

 at Mrs. Mann's boarding-house in New- York, 

 and has since grown into intimacy. His letters 

 occasionally glance on subjects of natural science^ 

 sometimes on the peculiarity of our manners, and 

 the state of our social and political institutions. 

 They were obviously written in great haste, ex- 

 hibiting no marks of limce, labor, and probably 

 were never revised, corrected, or copied by the 

 writer. If these which I now send to you shall 

 be favorably considered, I shall, if I have leisure 



furnish you with more. 



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