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In i^artliig with our author, it is but just to state, 

 that we consider many may profit by a perusal of 

 his pages : that notmthstanding the simplicity to 

 which we have alluded, there is often something 

 sterling in his remarks and reflections, the result of 

 much experience, resembling the original freshness 

 of our writers before writing became so much of a 

 trade. In some places, indeed, his narrative is so 

 simply, naturally descriptive, and speaks so eloquent- 

 ly, of ignorance of climate, season, soil, circumstance 

 — of all the unknown dangers and dixF.culties inci- 

 dent to their new emplopnent — and of the w^onder- 

 ftJ contrivances and inventions hit upon to remedy 

 them — that, when perusing it, we could scarcely per- 

 suade oiurselves we were not engaged with Robinson 

 Crusoe. 



