IV DEDICATION. 



dulgejit. Their general tejidency at leasts as 

 calculated to render an interesting and useful 

 science accessible^ and in every point eligible^ 

 to the more accomplished and refined of her own 

 sex^ could not fail to have been approved by 

 her^ who knew and exemplified so well the value 

 and importance of such pursuits, and their in- 

 estimable effects upon the mind. These hopes, 

 which my late honoured friend and patroness 

 had, with her usual benignity, encouraged, are 

 now most unhappily defeated, andlhave no re- 

 source but in your Lordship, who is no stranger 

 to my pretensions, nor to my sentiments, and in 

 whom I have not noziv for the first time to seek 

 an able and enlightened patron. 



I remain, zdth the profoundest respect, 

 my Lord, 

 your Lordship's most obliged 

 and obedient servant, 



. J. E. SMITH. 



Norwich, 

 Nov. 15, 1807. 



