Salmagundi; or, The whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, esq. [pseud.] and others. By William Irving, James Kirke Paulding and Washington Irving. Printed from the original ed., with a preface and notes by Evert A. Duyckinck.

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THE STRANGER AT HOME; OR, A TOUR IN BROADWAY.
BY JEREMY COCKLOFT, THE YOUNGER.
PREFACE.
yOUR learned traveller begins his travels at the commencement of his journey; others begin theirs at the end; and
a third class begin any how and anywhere, which I think is the
true way. A late facetious writer begins what he calls a " Picture of New York," with a particular description of Glen's Falls,
from whence, with admirable dexterity, he makes a digression to
the celebrated Mill Rock on Long Island! Now, this is what
I like; and I intend, in my present tour, to digress as often and
as long as I please. If, therefore, I choose to make a hop, skip,
and jump to China, or New Holland, or Terra Incognita, or
Communipaw, I can produce a host of examples to justify me,
even in books that have been praised by the English reviewers,
whose fiat being all that is necessary to give books a currency
in this country, I am determined, as soon as I finish my edition
of travels in seventy-five volumes, to transmit it forthwith to
them for judgment. If these trans-Atlantic censors praise it, I
have no fear of its success in this country, where their approbation gives, like the Tower stamp, a fictitious value, and makes
tinsel and wampum pass current for classic gold.
CHAPTER I.
BATTERY-flag-staff kept by Louis Keaffee-Keaffee maintains two spy-glasses by subscriptions-merchants pay two shillings a year to look through them at the signal poles on Staten