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DEDICATION.
Though praiſe is a kind of tribute due to ſhining merit and abilities; yet, Sir, even envy muſt confeſs, that your well-earned laurels, the meed of military virtues, obtained in the ſservice of the Honourable the Eaſt India Company, have been too eminently conſpicuous, to receive any additional luſtre from the language of Encomium.
Your reſpectable name prefixed to theſe pages, cannot fail to ſhield them with the armour of ſecurity, as the judicous muſt be highly gratified with the peculiar propriety of inſcribing them to a Gentleman ſo perfectly converſant with ſcenes, which I have attempted to deſcribe.
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