Note 7 — INTRODUCTION.

The German translation is faithful, but heavy and ill-written. The French, tolerably written, perhaps, but miserably incorrect; Karamsin told me he had discovered two hundred errors in the first volume alone. The Italian is a rendering from the French. As a proof of the estimation in which Karamsin is held, I may mention that I learned at Petersburg, that several thousand copies of this voluminous work were distributed in a few weeks; and it was said, the author received fifty thousand rubles for the copy-right of the second edition.