DEDICATION. 
acknowledgements, by dedicating this Volume to Your 
Royal Highness. Should it succeed in attractingyour 
notice to thepresentforlorn and distracted state ofAbys- 
sinia, so far as to induce Your Royal Highness to 
promote the welfare of that country, by the introduc- 
tion of useful arts together with a judicious advance- 
ment of the true tenets of the Christian Religion 
among its inhabitants, I shall feel that my exertions 
in this cause have not been in vain ; and, in the mean- 
while, as the best reward of my labours, shall continue 
to look forward to the consolatory hope of witnessing 
the beneficial changes which the bounty and wisdom 
of Your Royal Highness may effect in the condition 
of that remote Country. 
I have the honour to be, 
with profound veneration and respect, 
SIR, 
YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESSES 
most faithful and most dutiful servant, 
HENRY SALT. 
London, July dth, 1814, 
