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Excerpt from Random Recollections of Albany: From 1800 to 1808; With Some Additional Matter
I am, however, well aware that an intelligent, sharp-sighted English traveller, such for instance, as Fearon, Hall, or Marryat would have seen, even through a smaller aperture, and under less favorable circumstances, enough to have enabled him to have given you, not only the exact topo graphy of the town and its localities, but a full and accurate account of its different religious denominations, the state of its society, the num ber of its slaves, and the character of its inns; together with many sage reflections upon the de moralizing tendency of republican governments! 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.
