America, a Four Years´ Residence in the United States and Canada
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Excerpt from America, a Four Years´ Residence in the United States and Canada: Giving a Full and Fair Description of the Country, as It Really Is, With the Anecdotes of Persons and Institutions, Prices of Land and Produce, State of Agriculture and Manufuctures Having been called upon, in many towns and villages in Yorkshire, to recite my personal narrative of America and the Americans, a call which I have always complied with, my friends now have paid me the compliment of asking me to publish an account of my four years´ residence in that country, and, at their suggestion, I have written out, from notes taken at the time, and from memory, the following pages. This book contains a true and faithful account of my peregrinations in North America, and an account of all I saw and heard which I thought worth remembering. I have, in general, given the true names of the parties spoken of, and it has been my aim that I should "nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice." It will give my countrymen, who are now thinking about emigrating to that continent, a fair specimen of what they may expect when they arrive there; what prospects are held out to them by both countries, the United States and Canada; with a fair specimen also of the peculiar characteristics of the great bulk of the inhabitants. I have also attempted a description of some remarkable scenes; but, as I have no pretensions whatever to any literary excellence, I am afraid that, in such descriptions, I have miserably failed; for I have a very perfect conviction of the truth of that celebrated apophthegm, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. But I trust to an indulgent public to forgive me if ever I have overstepped that critical bound. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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