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are alfo added, but the greater part are mere 

 engravings without any name: and though 

 the many divifions of the hiftory into 

 books, parts, fedions, and chapters, feem 

 very puzzHng and confufed, yet an ac- 

 curate obferver will find, that they are 

 proper ^ind neceflary to the methodical 

 arrangement, and the minute and nice 

 difpofition of Shells Dr. Lifter propofed. 



This difference in the feveral copies 

 has induced a French author, Mr. Davila, 

 in his Cabinet, vol. iii. p. 231, to give a 

 epilation of his copy with that in the 

 king of France's library, from M. de Bure, 

 who in the fecond volume of his Biblio- 

 graphic Inftruclive, has alfo many per- 

 tinent obfervations of the different times 

 of taking off the plates : by the account 

 M. de Bure gives, it appears that the 

 French king's copy is a very perfed one, 

 ^nd was prefented to that Royal Library 

 by Dr. Lifter himfelf, 



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