Note 19 — LETTER LII.
Reading edition
The translator thought the daring impiety of this whole extract so truly extraordinary, that he determined to seek for it in the original work, instead of re-translating it from D. Manuel's Spanish. With much difficulty he succeeded in finding the book: it is a large thin quarto volume, printed in 1798, with a portrait of Mainauduc from a picture by Cosway. From this the technical language of the summary has been corrected, and the exact words of this extract copied, so that the reader may rely upon their perfect accuracy.—Tr.