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PREFATORY NOTICE.
The publishers of the JOURNAL OF The Royal Asiatic SOCIETY-under the impression that there are many points of unusual interest in the articles named on the title-page -have resolved to issue a small edition, as a separate brochure, which' may be available to Orientalists at large, who do not happen to be Members of the SOCIETY, to the pages of whose JOURNAL these essays would otherwise be confined.
