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IN presenting the second volume of Roxburgh's Flora Indlca to 

 the Public, it has been deemed necessary to explain, briefly, the 

 causes of the delay, which has unavoidably occurred during its 

 progress through the press; and thi3 task very properly devolves on 

 me, in consequence of my having, unfortunately, been the chief 

 cause of that delay, 



A few months subsequent to the publication of the preceding 

 volume, in 1820,1 was deputed on a botanical mission to Nipal, 

 intended, originally, to have occupied oniy one year, but which was 

 protracted to eighteen months, and lasted until my return in the 

 beginning of 1822. The printing, which had been left off at p. 8i, 

 was immediately resumed, and continued up to the end of May, 

 when p. 200 was struck off, 



A severe fever, which I had caught on my descent to the plains, 

 and which I had endeavoured in Vain to root out by a cruise at the 

 head of the Bay of Bengal, during one of the preceding months, at 

 this time again attacked my enfeebled constitution ; i was confined 

 to my couch for nearly two months, and at length was forced to try 

 a voyage to sea, in search of that health, to which I had so long been 

 a stranger. 1 visited, accordingly, Piuang and Singapore in the 

 straits of Malacca, and returned to this garden on the last day of 

 the year, after having attained the immediate object of the trip, and 



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