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Explanatory Remarks to ye Preface to Sydney Parkinsons Voyage to ye South Seas.
Much respected Friend
1773
At length I have committed our Apology to the Printer and this is a revise.
I have been much puzzled about a proper title and have rather chosen the present than any other, for the following reasons;
To call it a justification or Vindication would imply a charge or accusation - but The Preface is a malevolent narrative, not a formal accusation - Any other title must have brought our names together with Particulars. This I thought an indignity.
I think the title I have chosen tho' not perhaps the best yet not very exceptionable. Be so obliging as to return
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