INTRODUCTION. 



AFTER a lapfe of two years from the 

 printing of the fourth, the Bath So- 

 ciety prefents the Publick with the fifth vo- 

 lume of its memoirs. The very favourable' 

 reception with which the former volumes 

 have been honoured both at home and abroad, 

 has been flattering to the moft aftive Mem- 

 bers of the Society 5 and the Committee of 

 Papers particularly has felt a proportionate 

 folicitude that the prefent publication may 

 be found of equal importance. 



In the feleftion now made from the gene- 

 ral mafs of correfpondencc, regard has been 

 principally paid to fubjefts of acknowledged 

 moment, and it is prefumed that the ftyle 

 and manner of the following pieces will be 

 b found 



