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PREFACE. 



advancing the boundaries of knowledge in every direction ; it 

 is only the limitations imposed by the scope and aim of our 

 pages that hinder us from concluding with the display of a 

 long roll of the honoured names and the inestimable works 

 that add lustre to an age already rich 



" With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time." 



