PREFATORY ADVERTISEMENT. 



1 O this enlarged and corrected Edition of 

 the History of the West Indies, it was 

 the intention of the Author to prefix a Preface, 

 touching every source of additional intelligence, 

 every rectification of error, and the general com- 

 pletion of his views, in furnishing every docu- 

 ment of commerce, of policy, and of natural his- 

 tory, as connected with the countries and the 

 people he describes. He had carefully revised 

 and corrected the text of his book, preparatory 

 to such essay, developing the scheme of its con- 

 struction, and the philosophy of its contents. But 

 death interrupted the design; and ere the last 

 sheet was revised from the press BRYAN ED- 

 WARDS was no more ! He had long suffered 

 from the disorder which brought him to the 



* 3y Sir William Toung, Bart. 



