and I thought it better to add my answers, or remarks, immediately to each, than to huddle the letters into one part, and the answers into a second. Cuts were also thought necessary towards the clearing up of some of the most blind descriptions of awkward situations and queer accidents which, I confess, are, here and there, but lamely made out by the writers. I wish my delineator may have succeeded in those I set him to. Several I have received, inclosed in letters from the sufferers, or experimental philosophers themselves, many of which are frightfully descriptive.
I request my Readers will be more attentive to what is contained in the following pages, than they were to my History of Cruppers, this being of a much more serious tendency—and a publication that for its salutary or wholsome advice ought to be printed for brass[1]. Some of the letters, indeed, border on frivolity, and some even on folly; but as they may divert,
- ↑ Lest the Printer should forget his erratum, I must suggest, that Mr. G. could never mean FOR but IN brass. Mr. G. mentions his History of Cruppers—a work new to my ears—but I shall be diligent in my search after it.
