Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Excerpt from Columbia and Canada: Notes on the Great Republic and the New Dominion, a Supplement to Westward by Rail;" Dear slr, - While dedicating this work to you with your per mission, I wish to express my conviction that few living statesmen are more cordially in sympathy than yourself, alike with the great colonies of the British Empire, and the great country which, nu happily, has ceased to form one of its grandest members. For many years I have been engaged in preparing a history of that splendid off-shoot from the parent state. Partly with a. View to acquire special information regarding the early and local annals of the country, and partly that I might be an eye-witness of a note worthy spectacle, I revisited the United States in the year when the centenary of their independence was celebrated, and when the event was commemorated by an International Exhibition. This work is chiefly a record of what impressed me the most during that visit. It also contains the conclusions at which I have arrived concerning the relation of the Dominion of Canada to its powerful neighbour across the St. Lawrence and the Motherland across the Atlantic. I have shadowed forth in the course of it a new and simple plan for effecting that closer connexion between the English-speaking people of the earth which, in a memorable speech to the members of the Union League Club of New York, and as memorable an address to the members of the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, you avowed to be one of the strongest desires of your heart. Believe me to be, faithfully yours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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