TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
It is to be feared that many of my readers may consider an apology to be necessary on my part for the style of the translation, and think that I might have followed the German less closely with advantage; the nature of the subject, however, involving as it does such very minute descriptions, and the constant repetition of the same terms, added to the impossibility of doing justice to the Author’s close deductions in any other form than a literal translation, necessitated a much more rigid adherence to the original text, than I should have thought requisite under any other circumstances.
The Plates have been most faithfully copied from the originals by Mr. Henry Adlard.
HENRIETTA STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE;
November 30th, 1847.
