AUTHOR OF "RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAST TEN YEARS IN THE 'SALVE MAGNA PARENS' IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. Cincinnati, E. H. FLINT AND L. R. LINCOLN. 1832. f 351 F63 1852 V. 1-2 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-one, by TIMOTHY FLINT, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Ohio. CINCINNATI. Press of L. R. Lincoln. ΤΟ Joseph Peabody, Esq. SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS. SIR, I have ventured to inscribe this book with your name, for the following reasons. I wished to prove, that much as I have wandered, my heart and my affections have still had their stationary points. It is my pride to hope, amidst all the vicissitudes, through which I have passed, that the friends of my youth will be those of my age. Years in their flight will never shed the mildew of oblivion over kindnesses, which have marked every period of my intercourse with you. Those kindnesses are alike associated with the remembrance of scenes that have passed in the land of my birth, and in distant regions west of the Mississippi. To you and one other friend it is owing, that I ever appeared before the public. I know not, if the public will thank you, or if it ought. I feel, that I, at least, ought never to forget the kindness and munificence of the motive. While While your keels plough every sea, bringing home the rich harvests of commerce, I have always known you the earnest and consistent friend of the sacred soil and the plough. This acquaintance with predilections, apparently so foreign from those, which have governed your pursuits in life, has added an inducement to inscribe to you a book, which, while it presents a |