PREFACE 



THE THIRD EDITION. 



IN sending this third edition to the press, I have added 

 but little : some account, however, will be found of rifle- 

 shooting with a conical ball, invented by Mr. Lancaster ; 

 as for the properties of gun-cotton, at present so much 

 talked of, I have merely made an extract from the Athe- 

 nieuin, for the accuracy of which I am not responsible 

 far from it. 



I have been able, through the courtesy of the chief 

 proprietor, to give a more accurate and circumstantial 

 account of the Island of Jura, than that which is to be 

 found in former editions of this work. 



The stones of the lithographic plates having been injured 

 by the numerous impressions taken from them, I have 

 supplied their place with woodcuts : and that these might 

 be executed in the best manner, I applied to Mr. Haghe 

 to reduce the lithographs, and to draw them on blocks. 

 He was so obliging as to comply with my request ; and ,. 



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