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SPEECH, 



SHEWING 



What ihould be attended to in Voyages 

 to China, 



DELIVERED BY 



PETER OSBECK, 



On his being chofen a Member of the Royal 

 Swedish Academy of Sciences, axStock- 

 holm, the 25th of February, 1758. 



Gentlemen ! 



TH E greateft rivers often come from the 

 leaft fprings ; and fo the leaft caufes may 

 produce the mod confiderable effects. The 

 ableft men in all fciences therefore pay great 

 attention even to the minuted information, 

 which is defpifed by perfons of inferior abili- 

 ties : they expett no fruit without a preceding 

 flower, no fcientific knowledge without fimple 

 but fundamental principles, and no experi- 

 Yol. II. K merits 



