DEDICATION. 



-"OCXiSiiiilKOo— 



TO THE 



Gentlemen of t^e englifl; Ban 



GENTLEMEJ^r, 



1 Should be greatly deficient in gratitude, 

 if I did not avail myself of this opportunity 

 of publicly acknowledging the agixeahlc 

 ordeals I have, at various times, gone through 

 in your formidable and august presence. 



As none of you, Gentlemen, are endowed 

 with the faculty of taking an introspective 

 view of your own craniums, it cannot be 

 expected that you should entertain any pre- 

 cise ideas of unsoundness in the animal 

 ceconomy ; I have, therefore, presumed to 



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