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PREFACE. 



THE following Notes were, with but few 

 exceptions, written originally without any 

 view to publication, being merely jottings of 

 matters from time to time occurring to my 

 notice, recollections of which I wished to 

 preserve for my own amusement. When it 

 was afterwards suggested to me that some 

 leisure hours might be employed in render- 

 ing them presentable to others, I thought it 

 better while it was certainly easier to leave 

 them generally as they had grown up under 

 my hand, rather than to attempt a more con- 

 nected arrangement, or even to reduce them 

 to anything like order. This I trust will be 

 considered a sufficient excuse for the abrupt 

 and desultory form in which they are now 

 offered to the Public. 



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