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SKETCHES:
BY N. P. WILLIS.
BOSTON:
S. G. GOODRICH, 141, WASHINGTON ST.
MDCCCXXVII.
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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:
District Clerk’s Office.
Be it remembered, that on the thirtieth day of November, A. D.1827, in the fifty second year of the Independence of the United States ofAmerica, N. P. Willis, of the said district, has deposited in this officethe title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following,to wit: ‘Sketches. By N. P. Willis.
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled,‘An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps,charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during thetimes therein mentioned;’ and also to an act entitled ‘An act supplementaryto an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing thecopies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copiesduring the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to thearts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.’
JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.
BOSTON: PRESS OF THE CHRISTIAN EXAMINER.
Stephen Foster, Printer.
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TO
MY FATHER
THIS VOLUME
IS
RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED.
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PREFACE.
In introducing this volume to the Public, the Author would simplyremark, that it was written at different periods of a college life, whichhas just expired; (the Scripture Sketches at a very early part of it.)He has no intention of screening its faults, either of feeling or style,beneath his ‘score of summers;’ but as prefaces are the fashion, hehas thought the mention of the fact would not be amis