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I cannot assume to myself any peculiar merit in the compilation. I am obliged to regard this fact as an expression of their feeling as to the propriety of a publisher bringing out a work under the title of another, which has been previously extensively advertised; and I doubt not but this feeling will be participated in by the Public.
In executing the work, I have received the greatest kindness from the Directors of the Grand Junction Railway Company, and every facility for gaining information has been afforded me, for which I return my sincere thanks. It would, however, be ungrateful in me not particularly to mention John Moss, Esq, and N. D. Bold, Esq., who have at some personal trouble enabled me to acquire facts which otherwise could not have been obtained. To Joseph Locke, Esq., the able Engineer under whose direction the Grand Junction Railway has been completed, I am also indebted for any peculiarity which distinguishes the Map from those usually compiled, and also for much information contained in the work. The gratifying duty of returning thanks and acknowledging obligations being accomplished. I take my leave of the Public for the present, hoping my little volume will not disappoint its expectation.
