192 Review. 



" To the public it certainly becomes me to apolo- 

 gize for the errors into which I myself may have 

 fallen, or for those in the original work which I have 

 left uncorrected. The subjects on which I have 

 treated are extremely numerous, and the difficulties 

 attending their right discussion by no means few. 

 Every Editor of such a work will fall into errors; 

 all that, perhaps, can be expected is, that the new 

 work will be more perfect than the original. I have 

 not, intentionally, wounded the feelings of any por- 

 tion of my countrymen, but I have been obliged to 

 glance at some of the peculiarities of their character. 

 This I have done with much less severity than Mr. 

 Pinkerton has done. 



" Benjamin Smith Barton. 



" Philadelphia, April 1th, 1804.>' 



END OF VOLUME I. 



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