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HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1838.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY STEWART AND MURRAY,

OLD BAILEY.

ΤΟ

SAMUEL ROGERS, Esq.

THESE VOLUMES

ARE HUMBLY DEDICATED,

IN SINCERE GRATITUDE,

BY

THE AUTHOR.

INTRODUCTION.

THE Author has ventured to appear before his readers in a new form in the present work, and can only hope that the fare he has provided will prove acceptable. Having won as much praise, as a rural sketcher, as might satisfy any one possessing even more than a moderate share of ambition, he trusts that he shall not be found fault with, for having placed a few figures in the fore-ground of his landscape.

In writing this work, the author has fulfilled one of his boyish wishes: for it was long a

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