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essay to any further treatment than I have already done, I 

 would be entering upon the dangerous habit called book- 

 making. 



I therefore conclude, hoping that some interest may be 

 found in the foregoing pages ; and if the information given is 

 not new, at least it is carefully sifted, and, I believe, in all the 

 more important passages, will be found to be reliable. 



I shall be glad to receive further notes on the advance of 

 the species, from those who may be sufficiently interested in 

 the subject, in order to keep on record its further history; and, 

 as already mentioned, I will be glad if the subjects treated of 

 in the last chapter attract interest and further discussion. 



CtNTRAL PARK, "^ 

 NEW YORK, :^v 



