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on the propriety of printing a frefti volume, 

 were perhaps lefs urgent than formerly about 

 the expedition of the meafure. The abfence 

 of many of the country gentlemen during 

 the laft fummer, and the greater propriety of 

 determining on the time of printing, when 

 the Committees fhould be more united, was 

 another reafon of a temporary delay. But 

 this interval was not unoccupied with bufi- 

 nefs of a fimilar nature, and of no inconfi- 

 derable importance ; which was the fuperin- 

 tendance of the prefs, through the printing a 

 fecond edition of the former three volumes — 

 all of which are now completely reprinted. 



Among the many proofs of the ufefulnefs 

 of this Society, and the public refpeft which 

 has been paid to its pad progrefs, the com- 

 plete difpofal of the firft edition of thofe 

 volumes, and the increafe of the public de- 

 mand, make at once a convincing and a 

 pleafing teftimony. But while the neceffity 

 for a new edition of former volumes was 



flattering, 



