Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,

BY HENRY N. HUDSON,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & Co., BOSTON, U.S.A. PRESSWORK BY GINN & Co., BOSTON, U.S.A.

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SIR:

MR. JOSEPH BURNETT,

OF SOUTHBOROUGH, MASS.

The Memories of a Friendship running, I believe, without interrup

tion through a period of more than five-and-twenty years, prompt the inscribing of these volumes to you.

BOSTON, January 1, 1872.

H. N. HUDSON.