Download or read book The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida (Classic Reprint) written by James McQuade and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida This book grew out of a postage-stamp. Possibly the reader may think it might better have remained in embryo, but the mischief is done, and I have written the opportunity for mine enemy - if I have one. A few of these letters were published, at the time of their receipt, in the Utica Observer and Utica Herald. The suggestion that they ought to be collected in a book so tickled my self-esteem that I yielded to the implied flattery; but not until I had consulted my friends, Mr. E. Prentiss Bailey and Mr. S. N. D. North, editors, respectively, of the journals named, whose favorable opinion reinforced the appeal to my vanity. Even then I had such misgiving that personal partiality biased their judgment, that I did not decide until the matter was submitted to Mr. Richard H. Stoddard, the poet and accomplished man of letters; but when his authority confirmed the commendation of the other competent judges I ventured to exhibit my small wares, shifting a portion of the responsibility of presentation from my own, to abler, shoulders. These screeds have no literary pretension. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.