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The Author Of This Volume Has, For A Considerable Time, Been Of Opinion,
That The Leading facts Of The Great Irish Famine Of 1847 Ought To Be Put
Together Without Unnecessary Delay. Several Reasons Occurred to Him Why
Such A Work Should Be Done: The Magnitude Of The Famine Itself; The
Peculiarity Of Its Immediate Cause; Its Influence On The Destiny Of The
Irish Race. That There Should Be No Unnecessary Delay In performing the
Task Was Sufficiently Proved, He Thought, By The Fact, That Testimony Of
The Most Valuable Kind, Namely, Contemporary Testimony, Was Silently But
Rapidly Passing away With The Generation That Had Witnessed the Scourge.