Travels in North America in the Years 1841-2, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint): With Geological Observations on the United States, Canada and Nova ... Canada and Nova Scotia (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Travels in North America in the Years 1841-2, Vol. 1 of 2: With Geological Observations on the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia

As the present work embraces a great variety of subjects to which my thoughts were turned during my travels in North America, I have endeavoured to confine myself as far as possi ble to the communication of such scientific matter as I thought might be Of interest to the general reader. For a more detailed account of my geological observations alluded to in the course of these volumes, I must refer to the following published papers and abstracts of memoirs read to the Geological Society of Lon don.

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Excerpt from Travels in North America, Vol. 1 of 2: In the Years 1841-2; With Geological Observations on the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia

My Dear Mr. Ticknor,

I am glad to have your permission to dedicate these volumes to you, in remembrance of the many happy days spent in your society, and in that of your family and literary friends at Boston; a remembrance which would be without alloy, were it not for my frequent regrets that the broad Atlantic should separate so many congenial souls whom we both of us number among our friends in Europe and America.

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