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you to the mark, and that is no eafy matter. This 

 mode of travelling, however, does not fuit the 

 Authors, nor the Readers, of our times, who are 

 difpofed to find their way only through the plains. 

 In order to fave others, and efpecially myfelf, fome 

 part of the intricacies of the road, I have compofed 

 Notes, and feparated them from the Text. This 

 arrangement prefents a farther accommodation to 

 the Reader; he will be fpared the trouble of pe- 

 rufing the Notes, if he grows tired of the Text. 



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