T O T HE
!R I G II T H O N O U R A B L E
T h e E a r l o f B U T E ,
K N I G i E T OF TK-E G a & T E R .
M y L o r d ,
T H E earneft defire I have o f making known to the
World, how much I efteem and1 honour Your Lordlhip,
and by. how many Ties o f particular Gratitude I am become
Yours, encourages me. to give this public Teftimony o f it, m
the only Way that Fortune ufually offers to Men o f Letters.
Though fuch a Tribute bears no Proportion to Your Lordihip’s
Greatnefs, yet I prelent it chearfully, being perfuaded that it
win be graciouily received; and the more fo, as Your Lordih.p
in reality has had the greateft Share in the Work itfelf. For it
b e g a n u n d fe rYour Aufpices,. from that beneficent Genius that
infpires You to promote, by the moit generous Means, the Improvement
of the Arts and Sciences in general, and particularly
Natural Hiftory, Your favourite Study. It was Your Lordihip’s
learned
