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PREFACE.

risen. Of the same character is " The story of the Scotch Merchant of the Eighteenth Century," written originally at the request of a near relative of Mr Forsyth, for private circulation among a few friends, and now for the first time given to the public by the kind consent of the surviving relatives. LYDIA MILLER. December 23, 1862.