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Title: Acadia
or, A Month with the Blue Noses

Author: Frederic S. Cozzens

Release Date: November 8, 2007 [EBook #23409]

Language: English

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ACADIA;

OR,

A MONTH WITH THE BLUE NOSES.

BY

FREDERIC S. COZZENS,

AUTHOR OF "SPARROWGRASS PAPERS."

This is Acadia--this is the land
That weary souls have sighed for;
This is Acadia--this is the land
Heroic hearts have died for:
Yet, strange to tell, this promised land
Has never been applied for!

PORTER.

NEW YORK:

DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET.

1859.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by

FREDERIC S. COZZENS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.

W.H. TINSON, Stereotyper.

GEO. RUSSELL & Co., Printers.

PREFACE.

As I have a sort of religion in literature, believing that no author can
justly intrude upon the public without feeling that his writings may be of
some benefit to mankind, I beg leave to apologize for this little book. I
know, no critic can tell me better than I know myself, how much it falls
short of what might have been done by an abler pen. Yet it is
something--an index, I should say, to something better