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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants, by William Pittman Lett This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants Author: William Pittman Lett Release Date: February 4, 2005 [EBook #14908] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RECOLLECTIONS OF BYTOWN *** Produced by Alicia Williams and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net). RECOLLECTIONS OF BYTOWN AND ITS OLD INHABITANTS BY WILLIAM PITTMAN LETT. OTTAWA: "CITIZIEN" PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY, SPARKS STREET 1874. INTRODUCTION. As no book, small or great--gay or grave, witty or sublime, scientific, dramatic, poetic, tragic, historical, metaphysical, philosophical, polemical, wise or otherwise--can be considered complete, particularly at the beginning, without a preface; I have deemed it expedient that the contents of the following pages should be dignified by a few lines of an introductory nature. It was not my intention when I commenced these reminiscences to publish them in their present form, neither had I any idea of their extending beyond a few hundred lines. That I have changed my mind is entirely owing to the solicitations of friends desirous of having them in compact shape, and not to any particular ambition of my own to write a book. I do not pretend to present the reader with anything perfect in rhythm, polished in measure, or labored in style of construction. I have aimed at the truth, and imagine I have hit it. My object has been, simply, to gather together as many of the names and incidents connected with Bytown's early history as memory alone could recal. My desire has been to rescue from oblivion--as far as my humble efforts could conduce to such a desirable end--what otherwise might possibly have been forgotten. In the contemplation
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