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Excerpt from An Analysis and Summary of Herodotus: With a Synchronistical Table of Principal Events; Tables of Weights, Measures, Money, and Distances; An Outline of the History and Geography; And the Dates Completed From Gaisford, Baehr, Etc In preparing a new edition for the press, the author has availed himself of the opportunity afforded him, for correcting the various errors of his first impression, and for making such additions and alterations as will, he hopes, more than double the value of his unpretending volume. He has devoted more time to this revision than was originally employed in the compilation of the entire work, and has especially endeavoured to reconcile the accounts of Herodotus with those of the Old Testament, and to render his general history more comprehensible and interesting, not only to the classical student, but also to the general reader. Digested summaries of the ancient histories of Assyria, Babylonia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Scythia, etc., have been incorporated in the form of notes, and a variety of explanatory matter has been bracketed in the text; and a brief geographical guide to the reader has been inserted in the form of marginal illustrations. The oracles have also been translated into English verse, and all the weights, measures, money, and distances have been reduced into corresponding English terms in round numbers, but the table of more exact calculations has been inserted as before at the beginning of the work. In conclusion, the author cannot but express his gratification at the favour with which both this and his other Analyses have been received by the press and the public; and the success which has attended them, induces him now to acknowledge their authorship. For the future, however, he will have no further share in their publication, as they will be henceforth included in the New Series of Classical Illustrative Works published by Mr. Bohn, to the cheapness and utility of which it will be unnecessary to allude