Author: Charles Cist

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9781332196517

Excerpt from Sketches and Statistics of Cincinnati in 1859 In examining the present volume, it will not escape notice that many subjects comprehended in the preceding issues of 1841 and 1851 are either only briefly referred to, or entirely left out. My reasons for this, I trust, will be as satisfactory to my readers as they were conclusive on myself. 1 shall state them in as few words as possible. In all publications of this nature, containing so wide a range and great amount of subjects and details, there will always be a demand for greater space than exists in the limits of an ordinary volume. The difficulty is not in gathering, but in excluding materials. In this instance, the amount to be shut out was greater than usual, because I had decided to embody in the volume a narrative of the early history of Cincinnati, extending through the first six years of its existence. A large share of the facts and incidents it embraces were drifting into oblivion, and I knew no other, certainly no readier, mode of placing them on record in permanent form than this. As one hundred and fifty pages have been taken up with this department alone, it is natural to suppose it has been done at the expense of crowding out other, perhaps equally appropriate subjects. To remedy as far as possible such neglect, I have added forty-eight pages to the volume, without increasing its price. Another motive for excluding certain subjects was to be found in the fact, that many of them had already been given to the public. and I was unwilling, except for special reasons, to dwell a second time on the same theme. Especially was this the case in the departments of a permanent or unchanging character, such as magnetism, medical topography, geology and meteorology, which had been fully presented in my previous issues. 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.