Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

J. H. COLTON,

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

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY FUDNEY & RUSSELL, 79 JOHN-ST.

Chuched May 1913

Dedication:

TO HENRY O'RIELLY, ESQ.:

Whose vast Enterprise has been eminently advantageous to The West; who extended a generous confidence to me at an early age and when a stranger-Confidence, the noblest principle in Human Nature, as Faith is the sublimest in Christianity-and whose manly friendship I have subsequently enjoyed, this Book is cordially Dedicated as a Token of Grateful Remembrance

By the

AUTHOR.