. Notes on the United States of North America, during a phrenological visit in 1838-9-40. ADVERTISEMENT AMERICAN EDITION Mr. Combe transmitted the sheets of his Journal to anAmerican friend in Philadelphia, with a request to thelatter that he would exercise unlimited jurisdiction in pre-paring it for publication on this side of the Atlantic, by-correcting errors, softening language, omitting within rea-sonable bounds, supplying by notes, and in short doingevery thing which his own good taste may dictate torender it useful in America, without departing from theobjects and principles which chara
. Notes on the United States of North America, during a phrenological visit in 1838-9-40. ADVERTISEMENT AMERICAN EDITION Mr. Combe transmitted the sheets of his Journal to anAmerican friend in Philadelphia, with a request to thelatter that he would exercise unlimited jurisdiction in pre-paring it for publication on this side of the Atlantic, by-correcting errors, softening language, omitting within rea-sonable bounds, supplying by notes, and in short doingevery thing which his own good taste may dictate torender it useful in America, without departing from theobjects and principles which characterise the work. Inmaking this request, Mr. Combe was prompted by a desireto be accurate in his statements, and not by a fear ofresponsibility for opinions deliberately formed. Accord-ingly, his ^friend has endeavored to meet the wish of theauthor in the first particular, by making the necessarycorrections, in the text, of various matters of detail, inwhich a journalist travelling through a country, and occu-pied, moreover, as Mr. Combe so frequently was in thearduous and engrossing
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