296 ON THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



I shall now close this tedious paper, wherein 1 have endea- 

 voured, as much as possible, to avoid all professional disquisi- 

 tions, or references to authors, or even allusion to any ground 

 on which I have not personally trod. It was my earnest wish 

 to have made it shorter ; but amidst the multiplicity of matter 

 and illustration, with which I have been literally oppressed, I 

 found that I could not abridge it farther, and at the same time 

 do justice to the subject. 



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