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conveyed under the injun<5tion of fecrecy ; and ccwicludc 

 our long preliminary diflertation with expreffing a wifli, or 

 rather a well-grounded hope, that this volume may not be 

 the only place where pofterity can meet with a monumental 

 infcription, commemorative of a man, in recounting and 

 applauding whofe fervices, the whole of enlightened Europe 

 will equally concur with Great Britain. 



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