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INTRODUCTION.
The succeeding pages grew out of a private
correspondence, which the author, at the solicitation
of his friends, has been led to throw into the
present form, modifying in a great measure the
epistolary vein, and excluding, so far as possible,
such portions of the original papers as were of
too personal a nature to be intruded upon the
majesty of the public;—while he has embodied,
so far as was compatible with the new arrangement,
every thing likely to interest the general
reader.
The author has not written exclusively as a
traveller or journalist. His aim has been to present
the result of his experience and observations
during a residence of several years in the South-West.
This extensive and important section of
the United States is but little known. Perhaps
there is no region between the Mississippi river
information is before the public; a flying tourist
only, having occasionally added a note to his diary,
as he skirted its forest-lined borders.
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