DEDICATION. 



TO 



SIR WILLIAM BOOTHBY, BART. 



OF ASHBORNE HALL, DERBYSHIRE, 

 AND TO 



DAVID WATTS RUSSELL, ESQ. 



OF ILAM HALL, STAFFORDSHIRE. 



Gentlemen, 



It has seldom fallen to the 

 fortunate lot of an author, to be called 

 upon to write a double dedication. Under 

 ordinary circumstances the task would be 

 a difficult one ; for it is not by any means 

 easy to find two gentlemen so closely 

 equal in rank, character, and influence 

 as you are ; and to whom the same united 

 meed of praise may be meted out unspa- 



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