536 Mr. Pickering on the present state of the English languaze. 
POSTSCRIPT. 
I cannot dismiss this work, without making an acknowledgment of the obli- 
gations I am under to several English and American friends, some of whom took 
the trouble to examine a great part of it, and favoured me with their valuable re- 
marks, After the’ Academy directed it to be published, I employed all my leis- 
ure in revising it ; and the unavoidable delay which has taken place in the print- 
ing, has afforded me an opportunity of correcting many errors, and of making 
several additions. It has still, 1 am sensible, many imperfections, of which 
my own Americanisms may not be the least. It is now submitted to the can- 
dour of the public (as I have observed in the Memoir’) merely “ as the beginning 
ef a work, which can be ne ara only by long and accurate observation.” 
Salem, Mass. Jen. 23, 1815. 
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