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the assistance which the result of their inquiries afforded him in his researches; but when they appear to have been misinformed, he has not hesitated, for the sake of truth and science, to correct them. He himself is doubtless open to the same criticism, and therefore without craving the indulgence of his readers to pass over his faults, (which, by the way, they are not a whit more likely to do for the asking,) he now leaves them to commence his narrative.
