THE NEW WORLD AND THEIR BONDSMEN BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS TO THE REV. ROBERT PHELPS D.D. MASTER OF SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE. MY DEAR FRIEND, BELIEVE it is a general complaint of authors that dedications and epiftles dedica tory are very intolerable things to write; which I feel to be true, though in the present case it does not leffen in the least the pleasure I have in infcribing your name to this book, as a memorial of our long and uninterrupted friendship. History being a favourite study of yours, you will need but little preface or explanation, to make you take an interest in the following work, even if your wonted re b. |