DEDICATION. 



that the ignorant are apt 

 unreafonably to caft on re- 

 fearches of this kind, notwith- 

 ftanding they are the only fo- 

 lid and rational means where- 

 by we may ever hope to make 

 any real advance in the; know- 

 ledge of Nature: A knowledge 

 worthy the attainment of 



Princes. 



And as Solomon, the greateft 



and wifeft of men, deigned 

 not to inquire into the nature 



Lebanon, to 

 fpriweth out of 



m 



that 



will not, I prefume, be an un- 

 acceptable entertainment to 



Your 







