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pen with regret, and if my readers derive but half the pleasure from the perusal of my little volume, which I have experienced in its composition, I shall feel amply repaid for any labour which it may have occasioned me.

In conclusion I would express my hope, that these "Recollections" may make some of my younger readers more satisfied with the land they live in. I would fain believe, that though England has its snows, and its long winters, its fogs and other discomforts, with which we are constantly finding fault, there are many, nevertheless, who would not willingly resign its solid advantages and real enjoyments, for all the glittering pleasures of the far famed East; half of which pleasures must, after all, be confessed to owe their attraction chiefly to the illusions of imagination.

THE END.

J. 8. PRATT, PRINTER, STOKESLEY, YORKSHIRE.

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