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more rankly of a long and continuous 

 consumption of the " midnight lamp," 

 I have only to say, that I earnestly hope 

 so, and that I shall feel obliged to any 

 reader, who, on the detection of errors, 

 will point them out to me, in order that 

 they may be rectified in succeeding 



editions if called for. 



W. S. 



Ashborne, May 10, 1838. 



