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ADDENDA. 
Since the publication of the foregoing Memoir several 
particulars relating to Mr. Park have come to the writer's 
knowledge, in themselves of no great importance, but 
which appear to be sufficiently interesting, had they been 
previously known, to have deserved a place in Mr. Park's 
Life ; and which are therefore now communicated to the 
Public. — Among other defects of the preceding narrative, 
it is unnecessary to point out to the intelligent reader a 
great want of those minute but discriminating circum- 
stances, so necessary to the delineation of individual cha- 
racter, upon which the spirit and interest of every biogra- 
phical work must always essentially depend. The writer 
had no personal knowledge of the subject of his Memoir ; 
and the materials, which were furnished for the work by 
Mr. Park's family, afforded little T>f that peculiar kind of 
information, of which he felt himself so greatly in need. 
The deficiency will in some measure be supplied by the 
particulars he is about to relate ; which he is well aware 
might be introduced with greater propriety, as well as 
with more interest and eifect, into the body of the narra- 
tive ; but from a consideration of what is due to the pur- 
chasers of the former edition, he is induced to publish 
them separately. 
