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TO THE

METROPOLIS

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

The most Renowned and late Flourishing

City of London,

In Its

REPRESENTATIVES

The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen,
the Sheriffs and Common Council of it.


As perhaps I am the first, who ever presented a work of this nature to the Metropolis of any Nation, so it is likewise consonant to Justice, that he who was to give the first Example of such a Dedication should begin it with that City, which has set a Pat-tern