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DEDICATION. rewarded Industry, and extended Cultivation, we de- dicate this Edition of the Four Ancient In your review of this and our succeeding Publications, you will, we trust, duly estimate our motives and our objects ; without one feeling of party or of prejudice, to perpetuate the ancient Records of Ireland, and to shew by the forceful lesson of historic experience, that through all ages, hap- piness has been the offspring of Virtue, and Vice the parent of Misfortune.

One other motive we may however acknowledge — the opportunity of declaring the sentirnents of general and particular respect with which we have the honour to remain,

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Your very obedient and devoted Servants,

THE HIBERNIA PRESS COMPANY.