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DEDICATION.




TO

HIS EXCELLENCY

GEORGE WASHINGTON,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.



SIR,

TRAVELS among the most ancient people which now inhabits this globe, and which owes its long existence to the system that makes its Chief the Father of the National Family, cannot appear under better auspices than those of the Great Man who was elected, by the universal suffrage of a new nation, to preside at the conquest of liberty, and in the establishment of a government in which every thing bespeaks the love of the First Magistrate for the people.