&c. &c. &c.
THIS WORK
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY HIS MOST OBEDIENT
AND HUMBLE SERVANT
RICHARD HENRY BONNYCASTLE.
PREFACE.
A variety of estimable works have appeared on the subject of America, which have certainly, in a great degree, extended the geographical knowledge of the New World. Many of them, however, were written long ago; the political face of the country has changed; the journals of recent travellers have opened new sources of knowledge; and we find, among other things, that North America, which was supposed to contain mountains only of inferior altitude, has now been discovered to possess summits of superior elevation to those of the Alps, or the Peak of Teneriffe.