may perhaps form a different opinion of the present state of evanescent servitude in these Western Isles.
Not discouraged, however, by the multitude of powerful assailants whose hostile ranks already threaten me, I look forward,-if my life be spared amidst the diseases which impair, and the difficulties which embitter it in a country little friendly to the pursuits of literature-to the completion of a task long since undertaken with the purest motives. Without expectation of pecuniary recompense, or ambition of literary fame, but with the ardent hope that I may thus become instrumental in removing those prejudices which, although fostered by the ignorant, or inflamed by the artful, have instilled a fatal poison into the generous and unsuspecting minds of the British public.