LETTERS OF HIBERXICUS. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW-YORE STATESMAN. 



June Oth, 1820. 



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Sir, 



T send you extracts of letters which I 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 limcz 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 vou with more. 



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