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Water-Witch, The
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Title: The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Release Date: May 26, 2004 [EBook #12445]
Language: English
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The Water-Witch;
Or,
The Skimmer of the Seas.
A Tale.
By J. Fenimore Cooper.
"Mais, qui diable alloit-il faire dans cette galère!"
Complete in One Volume
1871
Water Witch.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by Stringer and Townsend In the Clerk's office of the District Court for the southern district of New York.
Preface.
Christendom is gradually extricating itself from the ignorance, ferocity, and crimes of the middle ages. It is no longer subject of boast, that the hand which wields the sword, never held a pen, and men have long since ceased to be ashamed of knowledge. The multiplied means of imparting principles and facts, and a more general diffusion of intelligence, have conduced to establish sounder ethics and juster practices, throughout the whole civilized world. Thus, he who admits the conviction, as hope declines with his years, that man deteriorates, is pro