[Gutenberg 10619] • An Englishman's Travels in America / His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States

It was his almost unremitting practice during the four years he resided on the North American continent to keep a record of what he considered of interest around him; not with a view to publishing the matter thus collected for this was far from his thoughts at the time but through a long contracted habit of dotting down transpiring events for the future amusement combined perhaps with instruction of himself and friends.