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loathsome persons of the Lazaroni who swarm the quays of the 

 chief seaports of Italy and Spain, and are equally the pest and 

 annoyance of travellers in the interior, and from which source 

 more than four-fifths of the present raw material for paper is 

 obtained. 



The various dates I have given on the most approved authority 

 of Scriptural and Oriental research. Considerable discrepancy 

 may be observed between these and the dates assigned by those 

 who accept the Septuagint version of the Scriptures, but I have 

 preferred to gather the crumbs fallen from the chronological 

 tables of those luminaries, whose names are as eminent in the 

 pages of theology as they are in the annals of antiquarian lore. 



I have samples of the wrappings and paper which I shall pre- 

 sent to the American Institute, and shall be happy to afford fur- 

 ther personal information. 



' ISAIAH DECK, M. D., 



113, Nassau street, N. Y. 

 March, 1855. 



