text: " We cannot say that we have "read with attention" the whole of this whimsical production: few there are we believe who could command patience enough to wade through such a mass of contradictory absurdity; but we have selected such parts as we could find at all bearing on the subject Mr Wiggins professes to write upon; and we shall transcribe some few passages if not for the benefit at least for the amusement of our readers; merely premising that this gentleman gives us no data on which to found our opinions and no guarantee for the truth of his statements but his own assertion