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binders : they therefore committed nume- 

 rous miftakes, and I attribute thefe dif- 

 ferences to them and not to the work.it- 

 felf, which circumftance thofe who re- 

 je£l Lifter's work have not refleded on. 



The third pubhcation, in date of time, 

 is Rumphius's Rarity Chamber of Am- 

 boina, in foho, printed firft in Dutch at 

 Amfterdam in 1705, another edition in 

 171 1, and another in 1745. The little cur- 

 rency of the^ Low Dutch language, and 

 its having only been tranflatcd into Ger- 

 man, and printed at Vienna, In folio, in 

 1766, has partly flung a mift on this 

 work ; and the figures, in general very 

 good and correcl, have only been con- 

 fulted. However, Rumphius in his ac- 

 counts of the Shells is very accurate, and 

 is well worthy the perufal of the ftudent. 

 It is indeed furprizing to me, that this 

 work has never yet been tranflated into a 

 more current language, iince it would be 

 of great advantage to the knowledge of 

 Shells, efpecially thofe of that part of the 

 Eaft Indies. D 3 Petiver 



