PUBLISHERS' 



ADVERTISEMENT TO THE ENGLISH EDITION. 



After the anxious and ardent study of two years, the 

 talented author of the following pages has reduced to a last- 

 ing form the labors, original observations, and pictorial illus- 

 trations, collected during his long and valuable life, upon 

 this important history, in which he has, with such praise- 

 worthy industry, treasured up the interesting facts and 

 reasonings in this volume — very much condensed it is true, 

 but yet exhibiting such a view of the subject as, we trust, 

 cannot fail of being both interesting, instructive and popular. 



We embrace this opportunity to give an extract of a letter 

 just received from himself respecting a Preface to the volume, 

 not being willing to lose any details which may fall from so 

 valuable a source. 



"As for a Preface, I see nothing required, unless it was 



thought proper to state what I had said in the concluding 



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