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on the perfon who had the honor to receive them. As fads 
locally collected, they have been thought worthy to be laid 
])efore the public. The obfervations and refledions upon the 
fa£ts are fuch as occurred when the impreffion they made, on 
the fpot, was ftrongeft on the mind. Since that time they have 
undergone but little alteration, and are therefore confidered as 
Jketches only, to be filled up and finifhed by future travellers : 
and they are fubmitted to the public more with the confciouf- 
nefs of truth than of any literary attainments in the writer. 
