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Excerpt from The Pictorial Sketch-Book of Pennsylvania: Or Its Scenery, Internal Improvements, Resources, and Agriculture
The present edition of the "Pictorial Sketch Book" it will he seen, contains the beautiful and celebrated poem of Campbell's "Gertrude of Wyoming" - as originally promised. I cannot but regret, however, that owing to circumstances which need not be mentioned here, the engravings prepared at my expense to illustrate it are necessarily omitted. To make amends for this, several additional engravings have been introduced, together with upwards of eighty pages of new matter, which, it is hoped, will somewhat strengthen the gigantic title of the work, (bestowed by the former publisher,) as a "Sketch-Book of Pennsylvania."
It is probably due to me to say, that two or three paragraphs were introduced into the first edition, without my knowledge or consent. One of these paragraphs will be found on page 171 of "Off-Hand Sketches," and refers to the Black Creek coal estate in Luzerne county. The insertion of this particular paragraph was, in my opinion, entirely out of place; and I therefore protested against it, the moment it was discovered.
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