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Extracts from a journal of travels in North America, consisting of an account of Boston and its vicinity

Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo), 1783-1838, 1818. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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book

Author

Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo), 1783-1838

Publisher

Boston:

Published, as stated

1818

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en

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mrr.':, "^S^ARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 08190309 2 laH (&Otton) EXTRACTS FROM A fOURNAL OF TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA, GONSISTING OF AN ACCOUNT OF BOSTON AND ITS VICINITY. By ALI bey, &c. translated from the original manuscript. The fifth part of the spoil that you shall jjnin from your enen»ies, ap^er- taineth to God, the Prophet, his parents, orphans, the poor, and to pilfrriins that are in want ; — obsfrve what is above oniained if ye bel^ve iii Gt;(l,i» what we have inspired into our servant, and in the day wIk reui tlie distine- tien of good and bad was known. EL IvOUR-AN. BOSTON : PRINTED BY THOMAS BADGER, JUN. 1818. 1 5ol Tli^DEN V'w^'NOATl 'tis District of Massachusetts^ to wit : District Clerk's Office. Bi >E IT BEMEMBERED, that on the twenty-seventh day of February, A. D. 1818, in the forty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, Thomas Badger, jun, of the said District, has deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the Right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following:, to wit :— " Extracts from a Journal of Travels in North America, consisting of an Account of Boston and its Vicinity. By Alt Bey, &c. Translated from the Original Manuscript." The fifth part of the spoil that you shall gain from your enemies, apper- falnefh to God, the Prophet, his parentSy orphans, the poor, and to pilgrims that are in ivant ;— observe tvhat is above ordained if ye believe in God, in Tvhat we have inspired info our servant, and in the day wherein the distinc' tion of good and bad was known. EL KOUR'AN. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, «'An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned :" and also to an Act entitled. "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled. An Act for theEncouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Pro- prietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned ; and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts «f Designing, Engraving and Etching His- torical and other Prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the Distritt of Massachutetts. « TltANSLATOll'S AD VER riSEMENl \ THE Translator congratulates the public upon the arrival among us of the distinguished traveller whose Journal he here presents, done into Enghsh, The portrait of our coun,try has never yet been correctly taken by any of the crowd of foreigners that have attempted it. The contemptible caricatures drawn by British tourists served the purpose for which thev were desii^ned — of deceivinsr the Enclish people. They have served another purpose which was not intended. They have gone far toward des- troying the authority of British writers in general, and of British travellers in particular. They have be- trayed a deep rooted national grudge, which although an indirect tribute to our country, has been met, it must be confessed, by somewhat fiercer feelings oti this side of the Atlantic. French travellers have drawn more flattering, but scarcely better, likenesses. In short a faithful view of our country and ourselves by an impartial hand has long been a desideratum. Such an one we have reason to expect from the author before us— coming from a country not pohtically connected with ours — liaving no rival interest

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