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 age to continue his own collection of the most important, beyond the first — and last — volume. He meditated two additional. He had so much to do with the incipient Indexes of his country, as historian and annotator, that I have been tempted to make these observations, preliminary to the presentment of the Index which I am now publishing.

The volume is small octavo, as will appear; but as I shall give it as nearly as possible, paginatim, lineatim, and for letter, in facsimile, it is superfluous to add any thing more in the way of description. I regret, that my copy is deficient in one leaf: but from circumstances which will be stated at the deficient part, the reader will, perhaps, join with me in the opinion, that only articles of inferior importance have been lost.