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Excerpt from From the Hub, to the Hudson: With Sketches of Nature, History and Industry in North-Western Massachusetts
My first purpose was to let the book be anony mous, from a foolish feeling that such work might be considered unprofessional; but I have concluded that the attempt to show people how and where they may cheaply and pleasantly spend their few days of summer vacation - Often the dreariest days of the year - is nothing to be ashamed of or apologized for. A book that helps anybody to see and. Enjoy the Connecticut Valley or the Berkshire Hills, will be likely to do less harm than a book about the Mode of Baptism or the Origin of Evil. I do not, however, pretend to have been wholly actuated by considerations of benevolence. I have enjoyed the writing of the book. It may be death to my readers, but it has been sport for me.
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