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Excerpt from Historical Sketches of the South of India, in an Attempt to Trace the History of Mysoor, Vol. 1: From the Origin of the Hindoo Government of That State, to the Extinction of the Mohammedan Dynasty in 1799; Founded Chiefly on Indian Authorities Collected by the Author While Officiating for Several Years as Political Resident at the Court of Mysoor
Tm; first materials of the following work were collected for purposes connected with my public duties, without the most remote view to publication. Personal curiosity, and the increasing interest of the subject, induced me to pursue it, without any definite object, beyond that of rescuing from oblivion, before it should be lost for ever, the information possessed by living characters; and the farther exami nation of written authorities followed as a necessary and almost imperceptible consequence of what had already been done.
The public is little interested to know the gradation of circum stances hy which I have been induced to prepare for publication the substance of a mass of materials collected with so little of fixed design, and still less of literary skill but I may be permitted to observe, that in their existing state they could have been of little use if placed in abler hands, and that the task of translating, prepar ing, and arranging them for that purpose, would have been infinitely more laborious than that which I have undertaken.
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