1810_1855_ThomasScoresbyAutobiography_vol4

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Dear Reader, Believe me that it is with a feeling of much reluctance that I take up my pen to commence this my IV Volume for I intend to describe scenes in which I myself was the principal actor - as a country physician in the back-woods of America. I would therefore introduce my reader to a place called Glen wild, situated in the Town of Thompson, and County of Sullivan and subsequent to the time when I led my whole this & by the means of Thomas Bragg (as formerly related in a previous Mss -) Being therefore at this period of which I now write 1835 - destitute of means for the providing for a family dependent upon me for support I was consequently obliged to turn