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Range " of the Bohea Mountains were engraved 

 by Mr. James Willmore, A. R. A., and the figures 

 manipulating tea by Mr. Mason Jackson. They 

 were executed con amove, and do credit to these 

 able artists : and I avail myself of this mode of 

 expressing my obligations to these gentlemen for 

 the able and skilful manner in which they have 

 preserved the spirit and character of the originals, 

 while reducing them to the rules of art. 



In conclusion, I would only observe that if this 

 work should in any degree accomplish the objects 

 for which it has been undertaken, I shall not 

 regret the time and labour which I have devoted 

 to its execution. 



London, Dec. 30. 1847. 



