THE

PROSE WRITERS

OF

AMERICA.

WITH

A SURVEY OF THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS OF

THE COUNTRY.

BY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD.

ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS FROM

ORIGINAL PIOTUBES,

Fourth Edition-Rebised.

PHILADELPHIA:
PARRY & MCMILLAN,
SUCCESSORS TO A. HART, LATE CAREY & HART.

NAIN LIB.

Entered, according to act Congress, in the year 1846, by CAREY HART, in the Office of the

Clerk of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

STEREOTYPED BY L JOHNSON & co.

I. K. & P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.

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G 871

1856

то

HORACE BINNEY WALLACE,

OP PHILADELPHIA,

THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

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