Transatlantic Sketches in the West Indies, South America, Canada, and the United States (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Transatlantic Sketches in the West Indies, South America, Canada, and the United States The writer has called this book "Transatlantic Sketches, " to indicate his sense of the slightness of the work he has undertaken. The more one travels the more does one become conscious of the incompleteness of the knowledge gained in anything short of long-continued residence in a country. The writer in his Sketches has aimed at truth and accuracy, how far he has attained to these it is not for him to judge. For his account of Barbados alone he claims the merit of a photograph - a plain, true, ugly likeness of an ugly subject. The extreme fewness of reliable books of travel in the West Indies, and even in the greater part of the United States - a country full to overflowing of interest and instruction - will, it is hoped, excuse the appearance of this unpretending volume. 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.