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363 ...have schools and styles of art of their own, & a Literature of their own, as untrammeled as that of Greece, & richer & more unclear than that of any other age or country. The day these things has not yet come; but we see already the [[]] of the dawn; & when it has come, I think there will no ground for complainingof "want of development of the faculties or of "want of refinement of taste" in America.

I trust that no word has been set down in this book, should it be so fortunate as to find some reader among those treated me with so much hospitality, & kindness, which can in any way be displeasing to an American. If any from that side shall have accompanied me through its pages, now that the time for saying "farewell" has arrived, my one wish is that they may have come to look upon me somewhat in the light, in which one of my Boston acquaintances told me a week's intercourse had brought him to regard me, that is, "as one of themselves."