1 vi VREFACE.
2 sion to dispky for which he was Jiiinself tUmkin^iia^pA^ to indnlge Is
3 •ny further panegyric. *
4 I take this method of returning my best thanks to Mr. W, Erskine
5 at Bombay, for his readiness in repljino; to my references on many
6 points connected with the geography and history of Asia, The Pub-
7 lic will, I trust, ere long be enabled to judge of the raiue of the
8 time which he sacrificed from so kind a motive.
9 It will be sufficiently obvious that I have not had any professe<lly
10 litenay assiatance in the composition or correction of my book ; but
11 I have 'not neglected to aviil mjMlf of tin adiriee of my friends, by
12 nUdi many impeifectiona liaivie been removed.
13 Meiefindta of it^noidd be of little cooaeqnenoei if the subaCamse
14 of my aooount were firee ftom error. SVom the nature of my undeiw
15 taking, many mMkm will doiibtlew be diacovered, wben onr ae-
16 qoaintanee with ibe ocamtries I treat of ia-iuGieaaedi but in the pr^
17 lent state of onr kaawhiigb, no attempt to elucidate iJiem can be
18 ledumed presumptimufi, and whatever errors I may be found to bave
19 committed, will not, I troat^ be ascribed to want of indnatij, or to
20 Hidifference about truth.
21 Among tlioae to whom I am moat indebted for advice, I may take
22 the liberty of naming Mr. Jenkins, resident at the court of Nagpore»
23 and Captain Close, a.ssistant to the residency at Poona. To the latter
24 gentleman, indeed, I am bound to acknowlcHcro my obligations, as
25 well for the aid he affordrd in collecting and arranging some parts of
26 mv materials, as for the brnofit T derived from his judgment in the
27 general execution of my work. I In lieve I have now noticed all the
28 :f«^.6uxi'.l ^Ety0 received, which are not adverted to in the places to
29 V*;>l jfegfe^ifeajm part oT Mr. llMwtaij'i nup U tinmdy. In nqtie mamant bdbn At
30 *I*ublIc, *t)ie 'first draft of 'f >i;t'i'iv': Het n introduced, with some variation, into the map
31 ■ prefixed to Mr. Maodoiiald Kinncirs Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire. The
32 Mitnttpartd«obpidbtfafypiililUMdbdi»eddi^ aai^^ it
33 wm •boat to wfftut in a of ladfe wkUk Ifr. AinwiMi wm pnpail^g ir pab&
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