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Excerpt from Travels Through Canada, and the United States of North America, in the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Are Added, Biographical Notices and Anecdotes of Some of the Leading Characters in the United States
In Canada and the United States, are given with fidelity and truth; and the distinguishing features Of society are de picted in their natural colours It has been the author's Object to describe things not as he had read or heard Of them, but as he found them and to exhibit to the European world the vast and rapid strides which the American continent is making towards wealth, power, and dominion. Few men thirty years ago would have believed the United States capable of at taining such a rank among nations as she holds at this day and yet it is nothing to that which might be expected from her, were her councils guided by wisdom. The two Canadas have also rapidly improved, but not in proportion to their neighbours, for colonies have not the vigour and spirit of independent states. The genius and dis position Of the French Canadians, who form so large a proportion of the inhabi. Tents of the Lower Province, are of so pe culiat a nature that they require more than an ordinary attention on the part of their Government. 'much. However, has cer . 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.
