Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 436. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 436 p. Contains: Unspecified, Illustrations, black & white. Excerpt from Notes on North America, Vol. 1 of 2: Agricultural, Economical, and Social
In addition to the matters usually commented upon by those who visit foreign countries, the reader will find in these volumes a kind and class of observations which he will not have met with in other books of travels. And though I may appear to incur the risk of injuring their popularity with the general public by introducing agricultural remarks, yet, in the present condition of our own agricultural interest, there are few persons to whom some infor mation in regard to that of America will not be acceptable. These observations on rural matters are also so mixed up with remarks on other subjects as not, I hope, to fatigue even the ordinary readers of books of travels.
It has long struck me as a vital defect in the accomplishments of most of our travellers in foreign countries, that the want of an agricultural eye has prevented them from giving us any of that positive and matter - of-fact information upon which alone a correct estimate of the real character, capabilities, and future economical prospects of a country can be safely based.
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