A GLIMPSE

AT THE

UNITED STATES

AND THE

NORTHERN STATES OF AMERICA,

WITH

THE CANADAS,

COMPRISING THEIR RIVERS, LAKES, AND FALLS

DURING THE AUTUMN OF 1852;

INCLUDING SOME ACCOUNT OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP.

BY EDMUND PATTEN, ESQ.

With Illustrations,

· SKETCHED AND ZINCOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR,

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LONDON:

EFFINGHAM WILSON, PUBLISHER,

11, ROYAL EXCHANGE.

PREFACE.

"Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print :
“A book's a book, altho' there's nothing in't."

BYRON.

THE Reader will not, I trust, conclude from my having adopted the above motto, that I am either so weak as to have no object in offering this little volume to the world, beyond the gratification of my own vanity, or altogether so dishonest as to seek the patronage of the public to a work, which, with knowledge afore-thought, I am sensible has "nothing in it" that can arrest the attention or engage the understanding. My design, on the contrary, is to show that I am not ignorant of the risk which writers unknown to fame always incur, of having the double charge of vanity and inefficiency brought against them by a criticising public.

In perusing the incidents related, and the scenes described, as they came under observation during my visit to the New World, it will not be difficult for the discerning critic to recognise less of the character of the