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TO THE PUBLIC.

The history of the Buccaneers abounds with perilous enterprises and
romantic adventures, which afford a field for the highest powers of the
novelist; but hitherto American authors have avoided this fertile ground.
In “Ringwood the Rover” the writer has sought to give a picture of the
nobler class, as well as to describe some of the daring undertakings of these
free rovers of the seas.


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