XU PREFACE. 



proceedings, it will be received hereafter as being 

 authentic information concerning an honest and 

 honourable effort at continuing, and extending, 

 and raising the reputation of the city, always 

 more or less literary and scientific, while it per- 

 petuates the names, memories, and services of 

 persons who devoted themselves to the work, 

 and persevered in it through some discourage- 

 ments, till it was brought to so happy a com- 

 pletion. 



