AUTHOR "OF A VISIT TO THE SOUTH SEAS," &c. &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

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PHILADELPHIA:

CAREY, LEA, & BLANCHARD.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, by CAREY, LEA, & BLANCHARD, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA:

C. SHERMAN & CO. PRINTERS, NO. 19 ST. JAMES STREET.

TO THE

HONOURABLE WILLIAM W. BOARDMAN,

&c. &c.

OF NEW HAVEN, CONN.

MY DEAR BOARDMAN,

It is not in idle compliment, that your name occupies this page.

Early endeared to me by associations of intimacy and friendship, you are blended in many of the choicest recollections of my youth; and I am happy in the opportunity, now in our riper years, of paying a slight tribute to the virtues, talent and accomplishments which have won the unalterable regard of

THE AUTHOR.