ADVERTISEMENT 



TO THE 



SECOND EDITION. 



Some apology is justly due to the public for 

 the hasty and imperfect manner in which 

 the first edition of this work was presented to 

 their notice. 



The simple fact is, that a journal rapidly 

 thrown together in a distant foreign country, 

 under every disadvantage, was even more 

 precipitately hurried through the press, upon 

 my return to England. To account for this 

 haste, and to apologise in some measure for 

 the defects which were the necessary conse- 

 quence of it, it may be only requisite to 

 state, that the dawn of those important re~ 



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