Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year iS66, by J. B. LIPPINCOTX & CO., in the Clerk's OflBce of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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To Stephen Colwell, Esq., &c., &c., &c. :
SiK : — The learning and research displayed throughout such of your writings upon subjects akin to the following treatise, as I have been for- tunate enough to peruse, renders the presentation to you of this volume a not inappropriate testimony of respect from a fellow-laborer. But besides this, the kindness and encouragement I have received at your hands, and which I hold in grateful recollection, have given rise to feel- ings of personal regard and esteem, that I am anxious to acknowledge.
Permit me, then, sir, to present you with this book, and remain al- ways.
Your greatly obliged friend, J. B, C. MURRAY.
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