[ Indrock, John]

BOXIANA;

OR,

SKETCHES OF MODERN

Pugilism,

CONTAINING

ALL THE TRANSACTIONS OF NOTE,

CONNECTED WITH

THE PRIZE RING,

DURING THE YEARS, 1821, 1822, 1823.

WITH AN

ESSAY ON THE ART OF TRAINING.

DEDICATED TO

COLONEL BERKELEY.

London:

PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, JONES AND CO.

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

DEDICATION.

TO

COLONEL BERKELEY,

OF BERKELEY-CASTLE,

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

"Not every path extends the same,
But various are the roads to fame :

With diff'rent eye the same pursuits we view,
Nor all one wish with equal zeal pursue."
Pindar, O. O. ix.

SIR,

"TRUTH needs no ornament, and all she borrows from the Pencil is deformity." Thus writes the celebrated author of "the Diversions of Purley," who, although a Parson, was a keen Sportsman, and when opposed, his adversaries found him a tolerable hard hitter.