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Q U E E N .
M A D A M ,
¡S thefe Volumes contain an Effay towards the Natural
Hiflory o f that Part o f Y o u r M A J E S T Y ’S
Dominions, which is particularly honoured by bearing
Y o u r Au g u s t N am e C A R O L I N A* this and Your
great Goodnefs in encouraging all Sorts of Learning, have
embolden’d me to implore Yo u r Royal ProteSlion and Favour
to my ilender Performance. I hope Yo u r M A J E S T Y
will not think a few Minutes difagreeably fpent, in calling an
Eye on thefe Leaves; which exhibit no contemptible Scene
of the Glorions Works of the Creator, difplayed in the New
World; and hitherto lain concealed from the View of Yo u r
M A J E S T Y as wel1 as ° f Yo u r Royal Predecejfors, tho’ fo
long poffeffed of a Country, inferior to none of Yo u r
M A J E S T Y ’S American Dominions