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THE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. 



Ihe following selection was originally designed for 

 the accommodation of friends, whose leisure was too 

 much engrossed by kindred and social claims, to 

 study a history which, though interesting in the ex- 

 treme, was written in a foreign language, and replete 

 with scientific terms. 



The Translator had fewer ties, and anxious that her 

 friends should share the increasing pleasure she felt 

 in perusing M. Lamouroux's " Histoire des Polypiers 

 Corallig^nes Flexibles," she consulted among scienti- 



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