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THE SETTLERS IN THE WOODS.

BY JOHN GALT, Esq.

FAS., HON. LS, P., HON. NHS, M., &c.

AUTHOR OF "THE ANNALS OF THE PARISH,"
66 THE AYRSHIRE LEGATEES," &c.

"I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
And with it all my travel's history."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

8, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

PREFACE.

THE Public have been pleased to regard the Author's endeavours to endow his imaginary autobiographies with a language characteristic of the supposed narrators, as among the qualities by which he has best merited their favour. In this instance, he has attempted to write as a humbly-educated Scotchman, of a particular temperament, who has been sometime in the United States, would probably have donea glossary is subjoined.

The principal portion of the first part is made up from a personal narrative, and the