tific traveller has to offer to an exacting public. The considerate reader, to whom I shall be fortunate enough to convey any distincter notions of the sweet, sad South, I am sure, will pardon the prominence which the plan of the book necessarily gives to the first personal pronoun. It is proper to say here, that something of the substance of these pages has already appeared in the form of letters addressed to the National Era, and that Chapter XIV. has been altered and condensed from an article published in the North American Review, for January, 1849. |