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original better than those of M. Beaupre. That the Plates II. and 1802. 
III. in the accompanying Atlas, are offered as being more full and January * 
somewhat more correct, does neither arise from a wish to depreciate 
those of my predecessor in the investigation, nor from an assumption 
of superior merit; there is, indeed, very little due to any superiority 
they may be found to possess ; but there would be room for reproach 
if, after having followed with an outline of his chart in my hand, 
improvements should not have been made in all, or some of those 
parts where circumstances had not before admitted a close exami- 
nation. 
