The Compiler here closes his notes, and has only to remark, that
throughout the whole of this little work, he has been less solicitous
about his reputation as an author, than a correct compiler. Studies of
this nature are but ill calculated to admit of a luxuriance of diction
or sentiment, and to these he has in no place aspired. His business was
to collect authentic information concerning subjects at once obscure and
interesting, and in what degree he has effected this object he leaves
his readers to determine, feeling conscious himself, that however
imperfectly he may have executed his design, his only aim was the public
good.