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Institute for Young Ladies, after enumerating the various branches of literature to be taught, winds up with the following paragraph:

"And finally, it will be constantly inculcated, that their education will be completed when they have the power to extend unaided, a spirit of investigation, searching and appreciating truth, without passing the bounds assigned to the human understanding."

I have now completed three volumes, and although I omitted the major portion of my Diary, that I might not trespass too long upon the reader, my task is still far from its termination. The most important parts of it-an examination into the American Society and their Government, and the conclusions to be drawn from the observations already made upon several subjects; in short, the working out of the problem, as it were, is still to be executed. I have not written one line of this work without deliberation and examination. What I have already

done has cost me much labour-what I have to do will cost me more I must, therefore, claim for myself the indulgence of the public, and request that, in justice to the Americans, they will not decide until they have perused the second portion, with which I shall as speedily as I can wind up my observations United States, and their Institutions.

upon the

THE END.

F. M.

Printed by J. L. Cox and SONS, 75, Great Queen Street,
Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.

ERRATA.-VOL. I.

Page 61, for 64,000,000 bales, read 64,000,000 dollars.
175, for Sandresky, read Sandusky.

196, for pasturage, read portage.
213, for Willend, read Welland.
259, for peroration, read conclusion.

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12/29/84

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