ADVERTISEMENT. V 



beautiful types of the foundery of M. Didot the 

 younger, that the reputation of this Artift might 

 contribute it's fhare toward the celebrity of the 

 Work. 



I fliould have deemed myfelf happy to derive 

 information refpeding the fubjed of my Book, 

 from the illumination, and candid decifions, of li- 

 terary Joiirnalifts. Gentlemen of this defcription 

 have been left, for this purpofe, entirely to their 

 own difcretion ; for I have neither by myfelf, or 

 others, folicited approbation, or deprecated criti- 

 cifm ; but they have, for the moft part, confined 

 themfelves to obfervations of no effential import- 

 ance. That Journal which contains, of ali others, 

 the greateft variety of articles, and which, from 

 the great talents of the perfons engaged in con- 

 ducing it, feemed mofh likely to inftruct me, 

 finds fault with me for having affirmed, That ani- 

 mals were not expofed, by Nature, to perifli, like 

 Man, by famine; and it has objeded to m.e, the 

 cafe of partridges and hares, in the vicinity of 

 Paris, which fometimes die of hunger in the Win- 

 ter. But as, on the one hand, thefe animals are 

 multiplied without end, all around Paris ; and as, 

 on the other_, we mow down every thing, even to 

 a blade of grafs, it neceflarily muft, fometimes, 

 happen, that they periili with hunger, efpecially if 

 the Winter is fomewhat long. The famine, there- 



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