I t will be readily conceded, that these objects have not been attained without the employment of consider ble pains; It would have been easy to copy the hum drum details and innumerable errors of my predecessors, as each and all of them have done in their turn. But to produce a work aiming at so much originality and cornectness required a very different process. It scarce ly becomes an author to' speak at all, and far less with pride, of his labours but it is perhaps allowable to say something in the present case, in order that the reader may know to what extent he is to rely upon the accuracy of the details which he has condescended to peruse.

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