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we refieSl on the many advantages that accrue to the world in general, 

 from the different parts of the whole kingdom ', or confider how much the 

 different materials obtained from thence, contribute to the eafe andfatis- 

 faSlion of human fociety ; we muji certainly think it a Jludy that ought to 

 employ fome part of the thoughts of almojl all forts and claffes of people : 

 The Farmer and the Hujbandman would find their advantage alike in the 

 Jludy of earths and moulds, as well as of the different compoftions that 

 may mojl effectually brake the texture of them, or wann and inrich 

 their chilly juices: the Miner would undoubtedly improve his fortune, by a 

 more per feci knowledge of the nature of ores, and their native beds - y 



the Lapidary and the Chemifi, 



to 



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prop 



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their knowledge ; and how neceffarily it ought to engage the attention of 



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notwithjlanding all thefe al 



, has been [until 



the creation 



of late) almojl wholly negleSled ', or left to the improvement of thofefew 

 whofe bread depended more immediately on their acquaintance with fome 



of its produSl 



and how little fuch people have Jludied the nature of 



them, we may learn from the improvements made by men of the fc 



lafs at this day. Learning ho 



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met with its encouragers ', which induced many 



every tafle, has of late year 



to 



d every other fort of ufeful knowledge, than they 



give 



could have formerly done : and the 



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bliged me to contribute what I had obferved concerning the pro 



duElions of this 



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'This put me under a necejjity of examining the different Jyjl ems that 

 have been already publijhed upon the fubjeEl ; and finding thofe to be ge- 

 nerally confufed, or inaccurate ; and pland, without a due regard to 



that order, which nature feems to preferve in the formation and dijlri- 



bution of her productions : I have been induced to propofe the following 



form to the public, in which we begin with the moft fimple ooaies now 



hodu 



obferved in nature, and proceed gradually to the mofi compound 

 placing every produElion in that clafs 



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to which 



s, to wmco its common properties, 





and apparent qualities, pew it to approach the near ell : and to render 

 the ?nethod more generally ufeful ; / have brought it within a very nar- 

 row compafs ', divided it into a few ?iatural claffes ; and diflributed the 



Species under their proper Genera, with the mojl noted a?id appropri 







as well as thofe that were uncommon, with equal care. 



ated appellations. To make the Jludy eafy, and to render it more uni 

 verfal, was my defign ; which induced me to avoid a multiplicity 



names, 



I muft acknowledge, have a better opportunity of compleating a thing of 



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