IV PREFACE. 



Hill of Vermont to whom I feel deeply indebted for their 

 kindness. These give a value to the work I could not 

 otherwise claim for it. 



I am sorry that I could get no sketches of some of the 

 romantic and beautiful scenery of the more central regions 

 but no artist has ever yet ventured into them. At some 

 future day there will be a collection of those views made, 

 which will not be surpassed in beauty by any in Europe. 



The Moose Lakes described in one of the letters, I have 

 never seen, but a friend of mine, who has once been through 

 the wilderness with me, furnished the material, and for the 

 sake of uniformity, I used it as my own. 



