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Excerpt from A Treatise on Heliochromy: Or, the Production of Pictures, by Means of Light, in Natural Colors Place of his Birth - His Parents-i - Murder of his Father - Apprentice at Print ing - mcnaughton, the Scotch Artist - Christian Experience, and call to the Ministry - Works for Horace Greeley - Remarks on Greeley - Studies for the Ministry - Becomes Pastor at New Baltimore - Courtship and Mar rigge-l-the Mountain Girl - Ministry at Westkill - Antinomianism - Anti Rent War - Plain Preaching - Becomes publisher-removes to Saugerties -attacked with the Bronchitis - Quits Preaching - Goes to Daguerrreotyp ing - Early Lessons in the Art - The Blues, the Fog, the Blacks - Travel ling Daguerreotypist - Good Success - Durand the Artist - Called Home The Hurricane - Views of Medicine - Begins Experimenting for the N a tural Colors - Treatise on Daguerreotype - The Magic Buff - Photographic Researches - Pupils - Pecuniary Aairs. 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.