Preface to First Edition. 



ledging my obligations to Mr. James Hunter, who 

 has been kind enough to supply me with the 

 remarks and valuable tables which the reader will 

 find in the Appendices. 



ROBERT H. ELLIOT. 



Clifton Park, Kelso, 

 RoxBUEGHSHiRE, Octoher 18, 1898. 



