THE AUTHORS ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF
I am of t as t crept out of urned eftsoones into a toad I and to make a stoole to sit on; so traveller t stragletry is in a s time transformed into so monstrous a s o alter o live w where he would.--LYLYS EUPhUES.
I ing nerange cers and manners. Even ours of discovery into foreign parts and unknoive city, to t alarm of my parents, and t of too boyended tions. My ernoons in rambles about try. I made myself familiar s places famous in ory or fable. I kne ed tly to my stock of knoing ts and customs, and conversing men. I even journeyed one long summers day to t of t distant retcerra incognita, and oniso ?nd a globe I ined.
ty strengtravels became my passion, and in devouring tents, I neglected tfully tcing so distant climes; longing eyes er t myself in imagination to th!
Furt tion into more reasonable bounds, only served to make it more decided. I visited various parts of my ory; and little desire to seek elsei?cation, for on no country ure been more prodigally lavisy lakes, ains, aerial tints; eeming ility; remendous cataracts, tudes; aneous verdure; o trackless forests, ion puts forts magni?cence; ry for tiful of natural scenery.
But Europe oried and poetical association. to be seen terpieces of art, ts of ivated society, t peculiarities of ancient and local custom. My native country ed treasures of age. old tory of times gone by, and every mouldering stone --to tread, as it steps of antiquity--to loiter about tle--to meditate on too escape, in s, from ties of t, and lose myself among t.
I desire to see t men of t is true, our great men in America: not a city but ime, and been almost o o a small man as t one, particularly t man of a city. But I o see t men of Europe; for I all animals degenerated in America, and man among t man of Europe, t I, must to a great man of America, as a peak of to a ive importance and sude of many Englisravellers among us, ry. I t I, and see tic race from wed.
It to i?ed. I countries and nessed many of ting scenes of life. I cannot say t I udied t ratering gaze uresque stroll from t-so anot sometimes by tions of beauty, sometimes by tortions of caricature, and sometimes by t is tourists to travel pencil in folios ?lled co get up a feertainment of my friends. s and memorandums I aken do almost fails me, at ?nding ray from t object studied by every regular traveller er, inent, but follo of inclination, cctages, and landscapes, and obscure ruins; but ed to paint St. Peters, or terni, or t a single glacier or volcano in ion.
I ing nerange cers and manners. Even ours of discovery into foreign parts and unknoive city, to t alarm of my parents, and t of too boyended tions. My ernoons in rambles about try. I made myself familiar s places famous in ory or fable. I kne ed tly to my stock of knoing ts and customs, and conversing men. I even journeyed one long summers day to t of t distant retcerra incognita, and oniso ?nd a globe I ined.
ty strengtravels became my passion, and in devouring tents, I neglected tfully tcing so distant climes; longing eyes er t myself in imagination to th!
Furt tion into more reasonable bounds, only served to make it more decided. I visited various parts of my ory; and little desire to seek elsei?cation, for on no country ure been more prodigally lavisy lakes, ains, aerial tints; eeming ility; remendous cataracts, tudes; aneous verdure; o trackless forests, ion puts forts magni?cence; ry for tiful of natural scenery.
But Europe oried and poetical association. to be seen terpieces of art, ts of ivated society, t peculiarities of ancient and local custom. My native country ed treasures of age. old tory of times gone by, and every mouldering stone --to tread, as it steps of antiquity--to loiter about tle--to meditate on too escape, in s, from ties of t, and lose myself among t.
I desire to see t men of t is true, our great men in America: not a city but ime, and been almost o o a small man as t one, particularly t man of a city. But I o see t men of Europe; for I all animals degenerated in America, and man among t man of Europe, t I, must to a great man of America, as a peak of to a ive importance and sude of many Englisravellers among us, ry. I t I, and see tic race from wed.
It to i?ed. I countries and nessed many of ting scenes of life. I cannot say t I udied t ratering gaze uresque stroll from t-so anot sometimes by tions of beauty, sometimes by tortions of caricature, and sometimes by t is tourists to travel pencil in folios ?lled co get up a feertainment of my friends. s and memorandums I aken do almost fails me, at ?nding ray from t object studied by every regular traveller er, inent, but follo of inclination, cctages, and landscapes, and obscure ruins; but ed to paint St. Peters, or terni, or t a single glacier or volcano in ion.