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Excerpt from Francis Abbott, the Recluse of Niagara: And Metropolitan Sketches
That dread gulph, where passion lies and frets Till moody madness comes, and black despair!
In deviating slightly from the account given by Captain Alexander of the last scene in the life of Francis Abbott, I was actuated, not only by the consideration of making it less painful and repugnant to the feelings of the reader, but also from an idea, that the probable truth is in favour of the description Which I have given as it must, I apprehend, require a most un?inching determination, as well as great physical strength, to effect the purpose of self destruction in the manner related by Captain Alexander, the correctness of which seems to rest entirely on the testimony of the F erryman at Niagara.
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