OR,

A TOUR BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS.

EMBRACING

OUTLINES OF WESTERN LIFE AND SCENERY; SKETCHES Or

THE PRAIRIES, RIVERS, ANCIENT MOUNDS, EARLY
SETTLEMENTS OF THE FRENCH, ETC., ETC.

"If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to
be a competent judge."-IZAAK WALTON.

"I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ""Tis all
barren.'"-STERNE.

"Chacun a son stile; le mien, comme vous voyez, n'est pas laconique."—
ME. DE SEVIGNE.

IN TWO VOLUME S.

VOL. I.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS,

NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET.

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1838.

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us 23428.38

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

JUL 1 1914

CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS
MEMORIAL COLLECTION

I

[Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.1.

TO ONE

AT WHOSE SOLICITATION THESE VOLUMES WERE COM

MENCED, AND WITH WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT

THEY HAVE BEEN COMPLETED

TO MY SISTER LUCY

ARE THEY AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.