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As she felt a strong attachment to the scenes of her childhood, and an interest in the people among whom she spent the greater part of her short life,--an attachment which is evinced many times in the course of her memoranda,--it may interest the American reader to know that Liskeard is an ancient but small town in Cornwall. The country around is broken up into hill and dale, sloping down to the sea a few miles distant, the rocky shores of which are dotted with fishing-villages; in an opposite direction it swells into granite hills, in which are numerous mines of copper and lead. There. | 1 The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary Letters and Other Remains of Eliza Southall Late of Birmingham England by Eliza Southall This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary Letters and Other Remains of Eliza Southall Late of Birmingham England Author Eliza Southall Release Date April 8 2004 EBook 11959 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BRIEF MEMOIR OF ELIZA SOUTHALL Produced by Charles Aldarondo Leah Moser and PG Distributed Proofreaders A BRIEF MEMOIR WITH PORTIONS OF THE DIARY LETTERS AND OTHER REMAINS OF ELIZA SOUTHALL LATE OF BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND. 1869. For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. --PHIL. 1. 21. INTRODUCTION The first edition of this volume appeared in England in 1855 where it was printed for private circulation only. Many expressions of the interest that has been felt in its perusal and of the value that has been attached to the record it contains have reached the editor and the family of the departed. Several applications to allow its publication in America have also been received and after serious consideration the editor feels that he ought not to withhold his consent. In order that it may be more interesting and worthy of the largely-extended circulation that it is now likely to obtain additions have been made and particulars inserted 2 which a greater lapse of time from the occurrence of the events narrated seems now to permit. A slight thread of biographical notice has also been introduced. But it is not to this part which merely serves to render the volume more complete by enabling the reader to understand the circumstances by which the writer of the Diary was surrounded but to the Diary itself that