"Grateful as I am to the GOOD BEING whose bounty has
imparted to me this reasoning intellect, whatever it is, I hold
myself proportionably indebted to any one, from whose enlightened
understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine.
"I am satisfied that, really to inform the understanding, is to
correct, and to enlarge the heart."
JUNIUS.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1843.

TO

HIS GRACE

THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.

MY LORD,

I avail myself of the permission, most obligingly accorded me, to dedicate this work to your Grace.

I publish with no pecuniary views, but in the very humble hope that my unpretending volume may be of some use, however small, to my fellowcreatures. Should this, fortunately for me, be the case, its favourable reception by the public is, of course, desirable; and I know no more likely mode of effecting this object, than, availing myself of the privilege, by which I am honoured, of associating with it the name of one in such high and deserved estimation as the Duke of Sutherland.

I do hope that I may venture, without any sacrifice of good taste, gratefully to allude, upon this occasion, to kindnesses shown, by your Grace's