A respects you gain... YEAR IN EUROPE, COMPRISING A JOURNAL OF OBSERVATIONS, IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, In 1818 and 1819. BY JOHN GRISCOM, Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in the New-York Institution; Member IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. i SECOND EDITION, New-York: PUBLISHED BY COLLINS AND HANNAY, NEW-YORK, H. C. CAREY BOSTON, AND OTHER BOOKSELLERS. Abraham Paul, Printer. 1824. MEM AOBK com, Southern District of New-York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixth day of August, in the fortyeighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, John Gris of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words and figures following, to wit: "A year in Europe, comprising a Journal of Observations in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Switzerland, the North of Italy, and Holland, in 1818 and 1819. By John Griscom, Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in the New York Institution Member, of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, &c. In two Volumes." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United Statess, entitled "an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "an Act, supplimentary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. LENOX LIBRAR NEW YORK ADVERTISEMENT. THE first edition of this work having been for some time wholly disposed of, the Author is encouraged to commit it a second time to the press. In this decision he has not been governed so much by the ready sale it has obtained, as by testimonials of approbation, from •persous, both at home and abroad, whose authority as writers, travellers, and philanthropists, few would be disposed to contest. The merits of his journal (whatever they may be,) consist, he is fully aware, in fidelity of description, and not in the graces of composition; for in a work of so desultory a character as the diary of a traveller, in which facts rather than speculations have been the chief · object of his details, not much room is afforded for indulging the imagination in the luxuries of language. At the suggestion of a number of readers, whose wishes he could not well disregard, the sentences in French have been translated at the bottom of the page; and the names of many individuals, represented in the former impression only by asterisks, have, in the present, been given at length; a liberty which, in the cases alluded to, will not, he trusts, on full consideration, be regarded as a departure from a just perception either of delicacy or correct taste. Various typographical errors, which were overlooked in the first edition have been corrected, New-York, 12th month (Dec.) 1, 1824. |