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Dedication
Your beneficent diſposition to countenance and favour Science and Literature, has procured You the eſteem of the Learned over all the World; and has induced a Body of Men, the moſt eminent for their skill and diligence in all uſeful enquiries, and in purſuing diſcoveries for the public good, to make choice of You, to ſupply the place of Him, whoſe Name will be an everlaſting honour to our age and nation.
To whom therefore but to You ſhould I offer to inſcribe the translation of the moſt celebrated Work of your Illuſtri-
