Presented to theUNIVERSITY OF TORONTOLIBRARYthebyONTARIO LEGISLATIVELIBRARY1980MYTHICAL MONSTERS.MYTHICAL MONSTERS.BYCHARLES GOULD, B.A.,MEMBER OF THE ROTAL SOCIETY OF LATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEYORTASMANIA;OF TASMANIA.WITH NINETY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS.LONDON:PLACE. S.W.W. H. ALLEN & 13 WATERLOOCO.,OFFICE.TO THE INDIAPUBLISHERS1886.SEE1reserved.(All rightsLONDON :PRINTED BY W H ALLEN AND CO.. 13 WATERLOO PALL HALL. S.W.PLACE,PREFACE.THE Author has to his toexpress great obligations manywho have assisted him in the of thisgentlemen preparationeither access to their orvolume, by affording libraries, byor translations from the &c.furnishing revising Chinese, ;and he must tender them to J. theespecially Haas, Esq.,Vice-Consul at to Mr. ThomasAustro-Hungarian Shanghai,and the Rev. W. Holt of to Mr.Kingsmill Shanghai,Falconer of and to Dr. N. B. ofHong-Kong, DennysSingapore.For the sake of the author has endeavoureduniformity,to reduce all the roinanised of Chinese soundsrepresentationsto the S. W. whose invaluableWilliams,system adopted bythe most available one for No alte-is students.dictionarybeen made when fromration, hashowever, quotationslike have been inserted.eminent sinologues Leggethe volume toShould interestingpresent prove sufficientlysecond one will be issued at a futureattract areaders, date,of thein continuation subject.1884.June,NOTE BY THE PUBLISHEES.THE to state to the Author'sPublishers think it that,right ...
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