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XXXIV
INTRODUCTION.

seriously to mislead any one who is guided by it; and trusting to the importance of the matter, rather than to the manner in which it is treated, he submits it to the colonists of New South Wales, entreating for it, in the absence of any other English work on the subject, the candid consideration of the advantages which may result from it as it is, to balance the defects, which may distinguish it from what, in abler hands, it might have been.