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PREFACE.
A Preface is an explanation or an apology from the Author to the Reader.
In the present work the Author finds it difficult to write this Preface, for he cannot explain, and he does not care to apologise, honestly and sincerely as he desires to give no offence.
If he might make use of a somewhat hackneyed phrase, he would like to say that he was impressed to write what is here printed; in fact, that he had no rest, night
