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428 ^Now, when it is seen that I make a series of statements — of statements planted thick with particulars — in regard to the operations of a given battalion at the Alma, and that, after the publication there comes to light a private record written on the field of the battle by the officer who com- manded the battalion — a record confirming almost sentence by sentence the account I give in my narrative, — it is plainly a sound deduction to say, that the coincidence be- tween the two accounts must result from the accuracy of both. But I venture to think that an inference of wider scope than that may fairly be drawn ; for surely in the mind of anybody who shall be seeking after truth with the aid of accustomed principles, the appearance of new and confirmatory proofs of this sort will not only establish the particular assertion to which he finds them appended, but will even tend to strengthen his trust in other parts of the book. ADVERTISEMENT TO PUBLICATION COMPRISING THE FIFTH EDITION op Volumes I. and II., and the Third Edition of Volumes III. and IV. The text still remains unaltered. A. W. K. 1874. PRINTED BY WILLIAM BL.V KWOOD AND SON i.