apology for me, "the indefeasible right of my profession founded on immemorial usage." If I have said much, not much to the purpose, I prescribe for the same privilege here also. My object, as already declared, was to save the names of some places in our country from the tooth of THING-eating time— that the memory of them will now be perpetual, 1 am not entitled even to hope-let it cease; 66 still may our country itself be perpetual." May this be with me, as it was with the "illustrious and excellent person," whom I cite, AMONG MY EXPIRING WISHES." 66 END OF MEMOIR. ADVERTISEMENT. THE NOTES were chiefly, soon after the publication of the MEMOIR, in 1817, as will be perceived from No. I, and others have since been, and those denoted suppletory, recently, interleaved, in manuscript, facing the pages containing the passages to which they refer. No. I. itself, however, and No. II, having a general reference to the Memoir, were inserted between the blank leaves preceding the title-page. 9 |