Introductory Remarh 



THE SUBJECT OF FLOATING. 



T SHOULD not have ventured thus, a 

 fourth time, to enter the province of 

 other men, if I had no passport to ex- 

 hibit — if I had it not in my power to say, 

 that by my former intrusions of this kind, 

 I have, in some degree, seri^ed my coun- 

 try — if I had it not in my power to assert, 

 that I have akeady caused more than four 

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