CONCLUDING REMARKS. 



CONCLUDING REMARKS. .^i? 



In the compilatioQ of the foregoing sheets, much 

 more time and labor have been required than was at 

 first anticipated. The pubUcation of the work has in 

 consequence been delayed several months longer, than 

 the time calculated upon, when the proposals were 

 issued. 



Owing to the numerous sources, whence we have 

 gleaned materials for almost every article, (not less than 

 80 volumes having been examined in m;iking the com- 

 pilation,) it has not been thought necessary to refer to 

 every publication from which extracts have been made. 

 But we tjiink it proper to observe, that we have gener- 

 ally u?ed the language of others, whose opinions coin- 

 cided with our own. 



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