To General John C. Fremont.



My Dear Sir:

While any American might be proud of associating his name with that of one
who has done so much to increase the renown of his country, and to enlarge
the sum of human knowledge, this book is dedicated to you as a slight
testimonial of regard for your personal character, and in grateful
recollection of acts of friendship.

Yours very truly,

A. G. Mackey.




Preface.



Of the various modes of communicating instruction to the uninformed, the
masonic student is particularly interested in two; namely, the instruction
by legends and that by symbols. It is to these two, almost exclusively,
that he is indebted for all that he knows, and for all that he can know,