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PREFACE. 
skilled in tlicir mysteries than the inhabitants of any 
other nation. 
In the present volume much will he found that 
has already been before the British public, hut much 
will also he found that never has appeared in any 
publication in this country—and if it amuses the 
disciples of “ Flora’s language” in the studying of 
it, as it has amused the compiler in gathering the 
materials together, the labour bestowed upon it will 
not have been lost; for the arrangement of its con¬ 
tents served to charm away many a lonely night, 
when, seated in the “ Garden of Europe,” the howling 
of the dogs and jackalls too forcibly told him that 
what nature had made a garden, man had turned 
into a wilderness. 
