PREFACE. 
V 
An enthusiastic admirer of the beauties of 
Nature, the scenery of the countries through 
which he passed did not fail to attract a great 
part of his attention ; and interspersed through 
the book will be found views of what he thought 
would be most interesting to his readers : they 
are what he himself sketched upon the spot, that 
of Mount Vernon, the seat of General Wash¬ 
ington, indeed, excepted, for which he is in¬ 
debted to an ingenious friend that he met in 
America, and the view of Bethlehem. He has 
many more views in his possession; but he 
thought it better to furnish his publisher with a 
few only, in hopes that the engraving from 
them would be well executed, rather than with 
a great many, which, had they been given, 
must either have been in a style unw orthy of the 
Public eye, or else have swelled the price of the 
volume beyond the reach of many that may 
now read it. Of the resemblance which these 
views bear to their respective archetypes, those 
alone can be judges, who have been spectators 
of the origi nal scenes. With regard to the Ca¬ 
taract of Niagara, however, it must be observ¬ 
ed, that in views on so small a scale, no one must 
expect to find a lively representation of its 
wonderful and terrific vastness, even were thev 
executed by artists of far superior merit; the 
inserting of the three in the present w ork is 
done merely in the hope that they may help, to- 
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