Excerpt from Oregon and Its Institutions: Comprising a Full History of the Willamette University, the First Established on the Pacific Coast
The home of the author of the following pages is within the limits of the country which he has attempted to describe. A native of the great state of New York, a visitor to every continent on the globe, an admirer of ten thousand beautiful localities in the numerous countries which have come under his observation, he would not exchange his humble sunset home in the delightful valley of the Willamette River, near the blue and placid waters of the great Pacific Ocean, either for mansions of wealth in the crowded city, or for any other spot which he has ever seen upon the surface of this green earth.
Twenty-eight years ago he became a voluntary exile to that far-off land. From that period he has felt that he had an identity of interests with the country of his adoption, and for twenty-one years he has lived and labored and traveled within its bounds, and claims to be thoroughly posted upon all those subjects to which, with all due deference, he would invite the attention of the reading public.
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