XXll ADVERTISEMENT. 



Truth ; and nothing but Truth. It's mirror fhall 

 be my Egis ; and their image refleded from it, 

 (hall become to each a Medufa's head. Or rather, 

 may it be iny lot, far remote from fickle and 

 treacherous Man, under the roof of a fmall ruftic 

 cot, which I can call my own, on the border of a 

 wood, elicite the ftatue of my Minerva from the 

 trunk of her own tree, and place, at laft, a whole 

 Globe at her feet. 



Farther, if the Gentlemen Reviewers have with- 

 held from me their fuffrages, refpefting objeds of 

 fo much importance to the progrefs of natural 

 knowlege, and if others have got the dart of me, 

 in precluding my claim to thofe of the Public, I 

 can already boaft the concurrence of illuftrious 

 names, among all conditions of men. The Sor- 

 bonne, to whom I am perfonally unknown, has 

 done me the honour of adopting the new proofs of 

 the Univerlal Deluge, which I have deduced from 

 the total fufion of the polar ices : thcfe proofs 

 have been laid down as axiomatical, in one of it's 

 thefes, maintained, for the firft time, by the Abbé 

 de Ffguerûs, in his academical exercife of the 6lh 

 July, 1785. 



After all, fuppofing my friends the Reviewers 

 to have expreffed ftill more reludance to give an 

 account of opinions, which contradiâ: thofe of 



Academies^ 



