IV DEDICATION. 



interesting and useful science accessible, and 

 in every point eligible, to the more accoru' 

 plished and refined of her ownjex, could not 

 fail to have been approved by her, who knezsj 

 and exemplified so well the value and im- 

 portance of such pursuits, and their inesti- 

 mable effects upon the mind. These hopes, 

 which my late honoured friend and patroness 

 had, zmth her usual benignity, encouraged, 

 are now most unhappily defeated, and I 

 have no resource but in your Lordship, who 

 is no stranger to my pretensions, nor to my 

 sentiments, and in whom I have not now for 

 the first time to seek an able and enlightened 

 patron. I remain, 



with the profoundest respect, 

 my Lord, 

 your Lordship's most obliged 

 and obedient servant, 



J. E. SMITH. 



Norwich, 

 Nov. 15, 1807. 



