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PKEFACE. 



place had the original cast of the subject in this respect 

 been carried out.* 



One otjiy of the chapters — that on Ethnology — has not 

 received its final touches and corrections from the hand 

 of its author. The eminent and gifted contributor of 

 that chapter ^ irvived only to complete the MS. The 

 correction of the press devolved on his son. Previous to 

 his decease the Editor had received his authority for 



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substituting, as an appendix, a somewhat more extended 



(though still coniessedly incomplete) attempt of his own 



to facilitate the reduction to writing of foreign native 



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appeared liable to serious objections. The subject is 

 confessedly diificult : and it would have been peculiarly 

 gratifying to him to have been enabled to submit tl/un 

 aitempt to Dr. Pritchard for revision^ and to have received 



more than the general sanction above alluded to for its 

 substitution. 



^iih the publication of this work the Editors con- 



* In more particular allusion to t^^s chapter the Editor would observe, 

 that though the syixipiesometcr, and that substitute for the portable 

 bare: _:..: to which the name of " aneroid" ha- been given, are not 

 mentioned among tfie st-^dard and e? lUial meteorological instruments 

 whose continuous registry is recommended; yet they may be consulted 

 with ad^... tage, and frequent comparisons of the latter M'ith the baro- 

 meter would be very nl in determining how far its indications at 

 di: " ut times and in different circum.unees can be relied on. 



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