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Excerpt from The Ring of Amasis, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Papers of a German Physician Although I must plead guilty to having occasionally exceeded the duty of a translator by some interpolations of my own which may perhaps be easily detected, yet, on the whole, I have been constrained 'to abandon the at tempt to make such comprehensive alterations as I could have desired for the correction of What, on closer inspection, I must allow to be the defects of the work: for this I have found to be impossible Without an entire relinquishment of the purpose of the original Author, as well as a complete transformation of his literary idiosyncracies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.