Pickwick Abroad: or, The Tour in France — page 19: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Vill PREFACE. perficial glance at their institutions, manners, commerce, litera- ture, morals, &c.; but 1 sincerely hope, that, as international relations progress between the two nations, comparisons may be instituted for purposes of utility and not of disparagement, and that my fellow-countrymen will learn to appreciate the value of an alliance which promises to ensure peace to Europe and an increase of civilization to the whole world. GEORGE W. M. REYNOLDS. LoNDON, Ave. 29, 1839. (CO) im (C 0)(0\(6) gs) (E(0) im