Letters From the West Containing Sketches of Scenery Manners And Customs An
Letters From the West Containing Sketches of Scenery Manners And Customs An
James Hall
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BIOGRAPHY OF GENERAL PRESBY NEVILLE. You will have seen already that it is not my intention to confine this correspondence within the limits of any fixed plan, or to enter into any of those elaborate details which belong to more patient, or more learned investigators. I shall not lay down courses and distances analyze minerals, or describe the volant or the creeping tribes ; but when an amusing anecdote or a precious morsel of biography presents itself, I shall preserve it with the zeal of a vi...rtuoso. You may smile when I mention biography as among the subjects of interest in a western tour ; but you have yet to learn that your tra- montane countrymen cherish among them many names which deserve a place upon the brightest page of American history j and that 144 LETTERS FROM THE WEST. those rocky barriers, which until recently have repelled the tide of emigration, have concealed behind them patriots and heroes, whose deeds would give dignity to any age or country. Among these, not the least conspicuous was a s:entleman whose name is familiar to me from its connexion with the traditions current among the inhabitants of that part of western Pennsylvania in which I have resided for seve- ral years past.
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