Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hints for Naval Officers Cruising in the West Indies
This book scarcely deserves 9. Preface. Why then is it published? Surely none who know its writer will suppose, for the pride of authorship in issuing a virgin publica tion, at forty-three; and those who do not, may think what they please. Its size is unprepossessing: yet its writer, mayhap, has published many bigger, many worse, and many more useless volumes. This hint implies that he deems the, present morceau likely to be useful. He does, in can ddr, expect this - else never would it have been multiplied by types. About half of it was written in pursuance of instruction from the Honourable the Secretary of the Navy. The other moiety, not so written, was added with a sincere desire to promote the health of a class of officers in the navy, whose youth excites the writer's warmest solicitude.
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