The poetry of travelling in the United States

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Preface

A WORK of the character here presented to the public carries upon its " very head and front " its own recommendation or its failure. It makes no pretensions to add much weight to the stock of literature. It will prove a sufficient satisfaction to the author, should it be found to give new interest to the valuable department of the pleasant reading of the day. The intention was to present something in the same volume which might prove attractive to both the Northern and Southern reader ; to make the book particularly a gratifying and instructive companion to all classes of travellers who circulate through the land ; and if it come to this, it will be a source of gratification to the writer, as it is presumed it may be to all who love that land, to find something done, in this manner, to increase a good sympathy between different portions of the country.