THE LETTERS OF A SOLITARY WANDERER: CONTAINING NARRATIVES OF VARIOUS DESCRIPTION. By CHARLOTTE SMITH. VOL. III. London: PRINTED BY AND FOR SAMPSON LOW, BERWICK STREET, SOHO. 1801. LETTERS, &c. LETTER I. You have heard of fome eccentric man of fortune in England, who, without giving his family or friends the leaft intimation of his intentions, made it a practice to disappear for fome weeks, and the first letters they received from him were dated from the wilds of the American continent, or from the inte rior parts of Afia. As you have long been accustomed to what you call my romantic wanderings, you will not think the date of this letter very extraordinary, though it is from a country with which England is at war, and where it is fuppofed VOL. III. B |