THE TRIUMPHS OF PERSEVERANCE AND ENTERPRISE, RECORDED AS Examples for the young. “Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime; Footprints on the sands of time."-LONGFELLOW. NEW YORK: १८.म. PREFACE. THESE records of the Triumphs of Perse verance and Enterprise have been written with the view to inspire the youthful reader with a glow of emulation, and to induce him to toil and to advance in the peaceful achievements of science and benevolence, remembering the adage, “ Whate er man has done, man may do.” February, 1834. |