Excerpt from Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849 To be last written, and least read, is the fate of the generality of prefaces. In a. Chapter which belongs to a literary family, of which such a remark may, With much truth, be made, length were a fault, brevity an excellence. My Preface to the following Impressions and Experiences will therefore be very short, consisting of little more than the acknowledgment that, if the attempt to delineate life, manners, and scenery in the West Indies, and in America, should unfortunately prove unworthy of any share of public estimation, there is no one responsible or amenable for them, or for their publication, save myself for although the urgency of friends, and. 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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