Believing that an attempt of this sort has already been too long delayed; and that, if it may render any service, it must be speedily essayed, I venture to send this publication to the press, with a haste, that a zealous atten tion to my object requires, but which a regard for myself would prohibit. Ido not even give it the chance of the correction and improve ment it might receive from transcribing; being more willing to suffer the penalties of such an indiscretion, than longer to withhold my aid, inconsiderable as it is, in exposing errors, so gross in their conception and so fatal in their tendency.

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