PREFACE. 



Any of my readers who may be subscribers to " The VETERI- 

 NARIAN," will not need to be informed that the text matter of the 

 present work — which is here re-published in a connected as well 

 as corrected form, with the addition of the plates — has already 

 appeared, in detached sections, in that Journal. 



The Author. 



Hyde Park Barracks, 

 1849. 



