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PREFACE. 



The authors, in arranging their materials, di- 

 vided the country into Quarters, Districts, and 

 Jurisdictions; and of each portion of these they 

 enter into separate details. The editor, in his 

 translation, shall adhere to the same plan ; and 

 he has no doubt, that the variety of intelligence 

 thus afforded in a small compass, of which 

 every sentence may be said to contain a fact, 

 will be found more agreeable to his readers, 

 than the uniformity which would prevail in 

 such a work, if divided into a series of chap- 

 ters. 



The English Translation will be illustrated 

 with a map of the Island, and with copies of 

 the principal engravings contained in the ori- 

 ginal work. 



