FEB 2 3 550. OF M, BINDERY 916.2 Sh52 PREFACE. THE ground over which I would conduct my reader, has been trodden, and described by a hundred travellers, and is, for all the useful purposes of description, as well known, perhaps, as any road or province in our native country. I address not the scholar, the man of science, the artist, or the general reader of large information. My humble aim is to give the aspect of what I saw, and the impression it pro duced, for the gratification of those mental A 2 '760734 |