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HE design of this Introduction is not to make the customary apologies of authorship, nor to furnish in justification of this publication, a variety of ingenious reasons, which may have had no influence with the writer.

His sole object, and the utmost extent of his views has been, to furnish whatever his feeble efforts could contribute toward rescuing from unmerited forgetfulness; the names and services of and, both of whom, in his opinion, deserve Rh