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Excerpt from Trip to the West and Texas: Comprising a Journey of Eight Thousand Miles, Through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the Autumn and Winter of 1834-5; Interspersed With Anecdotes, Incidents and Observations; With a Brief Sketch of the Texian War It would have been quite easy to make a much larger book of the author's travels; and had he fol lowed the example set him by some of the journal ists of the day, he should have done so. But his object was not to make a large and expensive vol ume. He has given in a concise form, such de scriptions, incidents and anecdotes only, as he be lieves may instruct and amuse, and enable the pub lic to form a correct Opinion of the country. How he has succeeded in his undertaking, others, of course, will judge for themselves he hopes this little work may be found not entirely destitute of useful and entertaining matter, and prove an ao ceptable offering to his friends and fellow-citizens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.