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over, in footnotes between square brackets, so that the run of 

 the author's text is uninterrupted. In one case at least I have 

 expressed dissent from Hartig's views, but here again the 

 reader has the option of neglecting the footnote, and at any 

 rate the matter is one of evidence. 



H. MARSHALL WARD. 



COOPER'S HILL, March 1894. 



