In the introduction to the Work, we feel it our first duty to tender our grateful acknowledgments to the literary and official Gentlemen of all the parishes which it describes, for the numerous contributions and corrections with which they have so liberally and promptly furnished us, and without which we could not have approached so near to the accuracy in our local details which we have so zealously laboured to attain - under a deeply impressed conviction that "authenticity is the first requisite of topography."

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