OLIVER OPTIC.
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BOSTON Lee & Shepard. NEW YORK: LEE, SHEPARD & DILLINGHAM, 49 GREENE STREET. 1874. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by WILLIAM T. ADAMS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ELECTROTYPED AT THE Boston Stereotype Foundry, No. 19 Spring Lane.
A Squall in the German Ocean.—Page 36.
TO My Fellow-Voyager in the Steamship Persia DURING A PLEASANT TRIP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, IN 1865, STEPHEN S. HOE, WHOSE NAME EVER REMINDS ME OF MY PERSONAL INDEBTEDNESS FOR MUCH OF THE PLEASURE OF THE VOYAGE; NOT ONLY TO MY YOUNG FRIEND WHOSE NAME I MENTION HERE, BUT ALSO TO HIM WHO SAT OPPOSITE TO US AT TABLE, WHOSE NAME, ASSOCIATED WITH ONE OF THE PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICAN INVENTIVE GENIUS, I NEED NOT MENTION, FOR NO WORD OF MINE COULD HONOR IT, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.