Excerpt from Sketches on Tour Through the Northern and Eastern States, the Canadas and Nova ScotiaThe sketches thus collected, being written out at leisure hours in the manner first described, exclusively for my own use and several friends, by writing them in asimple, plain, plantation manner, reserving to each State, County and City their respective scenery as [passed them on my route. In this same manner they are offered to the public, with out even being written over again or revised for the press, so that the author, for the purpose of dividing the sketches into chapters, was compelled to insert strips of paper, on each of which was written the contents of the chapter, which is of itself a convincing proof that the sketches were not originally designed for the public. Had the author de signed the materials even thus hastily collected, for the public eye, he would have prepared them in a different manner, and not have given them to the gaze of the world in the manner here presented.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.