KMctheekTeytefs Museum
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L 2011CH HAARLEM
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The Right Worihipful
Sir ROBERT ABLY, Kt
S I R ,
H E Succefs my former Volume met with
from the Credit you gave- it by your large
Contributions and Pktronage, would vindicate
my Addrels to You in This,, either
from a Motive o f Gratitude' to You, or of
Intereft to itfelf. But this Volume hath no room to commemorate
Your Favours, to its elder Brother, whilft it
ftands indebted to You in fo great a Sum. Your
Inquiries, S i'r, in Natural Hiftory have been of great
Advantage to my Defigns in painting and defcribing the
Subject of them- ; and\’tis to be hoped there is a more pub-
lick one ftill to come; that our Gentry, by the Example
of Sir R o b e b t A B d y , will not content themfelves with
a Pleafure they enjoy in a lefs degree than their Dogs,
that of purfuing and killing the Game; but that by
their Obfervations upon the Polity, Manners, or extraordinary
Qualities belonging to thefe Creatures, they will
exert a Knowledge above that of their Game-Keepers.
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