A narrative of voyages and commercial enterprises . character of the citizens of New Englandfor enterprise and industry, is very generallyacknowledged. Being for the most part obligedto seek their own fortunes, they are thus earlyaccustomed to the endurance of privations,and to those industrious and frugal habits,which lead to competence and wealth. In thepursuit of that independence of which all aremore or less desirous, there have been instances ofdaring enterprise, of persevering determination, ofdisregard of fatigue and suffering, which are veryremarkable; but which pass unobserved from th
A narrative of voyages and commercial enterprises . character of the citizens of New Englandfor enterprise and industry, is very generallyacknowledged. Being for the most part obligedto seek their own fortunes, they are thus earlyaccustomed to the endurance of privations,and to those industrious and frugal habits,which lead to competence and wealth. In thepursuit of that independence of which all aremore or less desirous, there have been instances ofdaring enterprise, of persevering determination, ofdisregard of fatigue and suffering, which are veryremarkable; but which pass unobserved from their•frequency, no less than from the unobtrusive habits ofthe actors. A simple account of such enterprises, drawn from journalsand letters written at the time the events therein relatedoccurred, is here given to the public. More than forty-five years have elapsed since the first ofthe voyages here narrated was undertaken; and more thantwenty since the completion of the last. It is apparent that they possess but in a small degree, the power to in
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