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THE NEW YORK:
PUBLIC LIBRARY

163264

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850,

BY GOULD & LINCOLN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

TISKYBA

EDWARD O. JENKINS, PRINTER,
114 Nassau street, New-York.

Preface.

"BLESSED is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," is the language of that sublime moralist, Sancho Panza; and if the expectations of the reader are as moderate as those of the writer, he will certainly be blessed.

Authorship being a profession to which the writer makes no pretensions, having a calling that is perhaps as useful, and certainly more profitable, he hopes, there-... fore, that no one will take the trouble to criticise an unpretending trifle, put forth, not with any aspirations of a literary kind, but simply at the suggestion 'cf a few friends, and mainly for their gratification.

Perhaps an apology may be necessary for embodying in a work professing to be about Scotland, chapters on London, Paris, and Dublin; but the reader will soon perceive that this is the record of a pleasant journey, in

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