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PREFACE, 
This circumstance, coupled with 
“the earnest solicitation of friends 3 * 
—nt quidam auctores dicere soldi sunt 
—having now induced the author to 
revive it in a second edition , wherein 
he has humbly attempted the “march 
of improvement, 33 not by one or two 
degrees, but in a ten-fold ratios and 
being now about to retire from the 
world of letters, he begs to tress¬ 
pass a very little longer on your at¬ 
tention, indulgent reader. His little 
work has been titled curiosity, 5 * 
but as this quality may not be evi¬ 
dent on a cursory glance, he shall show 
in what respect, by the following an¬ 
ecdote about the Compiler, Printer, 
Publisher, and withal— himself! 
