OMISSIONS. 
Among the apologies which the Author of these 
pages might , and probable ought to make for omis¬ 
sions, his chief is that scarcely pardonable, one of 
haste ; the idea of it having only struck him about 14 
days previous to his forwarding it to the press. 
He takes blame to himself for not having devoted 
more time to this work, but peculiar circumstances 
called for its sudden appearance ; and to be candid, 
he neither had no more time to spare, nor, if, he had 
would he have devoted it to this work :—a rather 
arrogant assertion, but such as considering the re¬ 
ception which gocd intentions meet with ill the 
world, he conceives to be justifiable. 
Among the number of omissions is that of not 
having added to the requisite attainments of the 
Manager (and he thought he had prescribed him 
enough) a perfect knowledge of the qualities of 
timber, and of the seasons for cutting it down for 
buildings ;—points in which he would recommend 
him to inform himself of by a communication with 
the ideas of, and benefit from, the experience of 
others. 
Of 
