X 
ADDRESS. 
soil of the work by displacing those peculiar 
characteristics, the preservation of which must 
be the chief aim and the essential merit of his 
task. It was, therefore, determined that, in 
each successive volume, only one or two such 
subjects should he admitted ; the rest, as here- 
tofore, being of a strictly Oriental character. 
He had good reason to congratulate himself 
upon this decision, when he found his province 
suddenly invaded by the spirit of his defunct pre- 
decessor, which, though lately risen from “the 
vasty deep,” wears a garb and semblance so life- 
like, that it might possibly have imposed upon 
the confidence of the faithful readers of the 
Oriental Annual, and have usurped possessions 
which are the indisputable right of the proprie- 
tors of this Volume. 
Bath, August 29, 1838. 
T. B. 
