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Title: Travels in the United States of America
Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797.
With The Author's Journals of his Two Voyages
Across the Atlantic.

Author: William Priest

Release Date: March 11, 2004 [EBook #11545]

Language: English

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TRAVELS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With The Author's
Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic

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BY WILLIAM PRIEST, Musician,
Late of the Theatres Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston.

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CAPPRICCIO con----

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LONDON:
Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard

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1802.

Bryer, Printer, Bridewell Hospital, Bridge Street.

PREFACE.

An elegant writer observes that a preface may be dispensed with in any
work, if the author (either from his humility of justice) think that his
style be calculated only to put his readers to sleep. Though I do not
think the publication of the following sheets will _materially_ affect the
price of opium, I cannot intrude this volume on the public without
informing them, what all my friends will vouch for the truth of, viz.--
that on my return from America, in 1797, I wrote the work in its present
form _for their_ perusal; and, that conscious of my want of talent as a
writer, I resisted all their entreaties for its publication, till within
these three months.

The public, I presume, will not be _wholly_ disappointed; the _extracts_ I
have made from _Jefferson_, _Belknap_, and other american writers, are
worthy their attention: _I_ have no other merit than having placed them in
a tolerable point of view.

"The God of Truth, and all who know
me, will bear testimony that, from my
whole soul, I despise deceit, as