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THE KING,
sir,
ANIMATED by the gracious approbation, with which Your Majesty was pleased to receive the outline of the present Work, the Editor was encouraged to solicit the Royal Sanction, and to avail himself of every resource, both native and foreign; with a view to render the Domestic Encyclopædia worthy of the attention, and patronage, it now claims from a beneficent Sovereign.
If the numerous useful Facts, contained in these volumes, have been carefully selected; if the various objects of Rural and Domestic Economy have been elucidated with new and interesting discoveries; if the Familiar and Commercial Arts have also been attended to, with sufficient precision; and, if the Natural History of Man, Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, has been concisely stated, together
