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Rh pen were not unknown nor unprized; and most gladly avails herself of so suitable an occasion for the expression of her gratitude to all those friends whose warm and zealous support has ensured the success of her present work.

There is however one person to whom more particular acknowledgments are due, and she with great pleasure mentions her obligations to Mr. H. L. V., to whose invaluable assistance she is indebted for the superintendance of her volume through the Press;—a task which the distance of her residence from Calcutta precluded her from performing, and which none save a poet could have executed so ably. The author must ever deem herself fortunate in procuring for so important an undertaking the aid of a gentleman whose well-earned reputation confers honour upon the pages which have experienced his guarding care from those typographical errors which they could not otherwise have escaped.

Agra, April 20th, 1830.