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of a description which I did not then anticipate ; 

 namely, that, in the case of" more than one edition, the 

 -paging may, and generally does, differ in such man- 

 ner as to bring the matter, which, in one edition, is under 

 any given page, under a different page in another 

 edition. This renders the work of reference very la- 

 borious at best, and, in many cases, it defeats its ob- 

 ject. If the paragraphs of Blackstone's Commenta- 

 tes had been numbered, how much valuable time it 

 would have saved ! 1 hope, that these reasons will be 

 BuflScient to convince the reader that 1 have not, in 

 this case, been actuated by a love of singularity. We 

 live to leam, and to make improvements, and every 

 improvement must, at first, be a singularity. 



159, The utility, which I thought would arise from 

 the hastening out of the First Part, in June last, pre- 

 vious to the time for sowing Swedish Turnips, induced 

 jne to make an ugly breach in the order of my little 

 •work ; and, as it generally happens, that when disorder 

 is once begun, it is very difficult to restore order ; so, 

 in this case, I have been exceedingly puzzled to give to 

 the matter of these two last Parts such an arrangement 

 as should be worthy of a work, which, whatever may 

 be the character of its execution, treats of subjects of 

 great public interest. However, with the help of the 

 Index, which I shall subjoin to the Third Part, and 

 which will comprise a reference to the divers matters in 

 all the three parts, and in the making of which Judex 

 an additional proof of the advantage of numbering the 

 paragraphs has appeared ; with the help of this Index 

 the reader will, I am in hopes, be enabled to over- 

 come, without any very great trouble, the inconreniences 



