Excerpt from The New-Hampshire Annual Register, and United States Calendar, for the Year 1850, Vol. 29 It is too late to look back upon the land, when, the cable be ing loosed, the vessel is making her way irito the immense deep. - We should use all previous circumspection when about to com mitan act which in its consequences may be irretrievable. Ibid. 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.