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TO
JACOB SUTHERLAND,
OF BLENHEIM, SCOHARIE,
ESQUIRE.
The length of our friendship would be a sufficient reason for prefixing your name to these pages; but your residence so near the scene of the tale, and your familiarity with much of the character and kind of life that I have attempted to describe, render it more peculiarly proper. You, at least, dear Sutherland, will not receive this dedication as a cold compliment, but as an evidence of the feeling that makes me,
Warmly and truly,
Your friend,
