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standing all these obvious imperfections, the 

 public has crowned both objects with their 

 sanction, and have kindly overlooked those 

 omissions and defects which I was not ex- 

 clusively the cause of, for my humble per- 

 formance has experienced a sale extraordi- 

 nary for its rapidity, and I have seldom 

 offered an exhibition which has been more 

 generally popular and satisfactory : time has 

 since enabled me to revise the former, and 

 to mature and consolidate the latter, so that 

 I flatter myself, in their present improved 

 state, both will now be found more worthy 

 of meriting approbation. Such has been the 

 intense eagerness of persons to obtain the 

 most extended knowledge of these regions of 

 promise, that my time has also been severely 

 taxed in answering inquiries, both verbally 

 and by letter, from innumerable persons, of 

 whom I had not previously the slightest 

 knowledge, and though, as may easily be sup- 



