lication would be considerably increased, he has declined to insert the biographical account alluded to, from a wish not to incur the charge of overwhelming a small though valuable treatise with extraneous matter. In a literary and critical point of view, the Editor has, perhaps, by this omission, better consulted his own reputation, and the justice due to the illustrious memory of Sir William Jones.

With respect to the work in its present form, the Editor takes leave to observe that his particular aim has been to render it an useful repository on the subject of

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