PREFACE. 



This work having been conducted thus far under manifest disad- 

 vantages, the author hopes that the public will extend their patron- 

 age to it, dow that so great a facility is afforded him, of continuing 

 it in future to their entire satisfaction — and he renews his assurances 

 that redoubled energy and zeal shall attend the execution of the suc- 

 ceeding volumes. 



Philadelphia, July 4 5, 1822. 



