THOMAS PENNANT, E% 



O F 



DOWNING, in FLINTSHIRE, 



Dear Sir,- 



TH E peculiar obligations your good- 

 nefs has laid me under, have left 

 me no room to hefitate one moment in 

 the choice of a patrOn for this publica- 

 tion. 



This work was undertaken with your* 

 approbation, enriched by you with many 

 important additions, and has often been 

 the fubjedt. of our converfation. 



But my obligations to you are not 

 confined to the affiftance you have afford- 

 ed me in this prefent work : by your fa- 

 vour, I, who was an utter lb-anger to 

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