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To Sir ASH TON LEVER, Knight. 



SIR, 



^ I AH E noble, magnificent, and curious Museum you have 

 jL colleâed at Leice^er-Houfe, for the infpedion of the Public, 

 is univerfally allowed to be a National Honour. The appro- 

 bation of our SACRED SOVEREIGN, a Prince Patron and 

 Encourager of the Sciences and Arts, and the fatisfadlion of 

 all ranks of people who refort to view it, are indubitable marks 

 f)f the fuccefs of your efforts. The Perfediion of the Specimens; 

 the Elegance and Order of their Arrangement; the Choice and 

 Variety of the Obje£ls, colle6led from all parts of the known 

 world ; at once declare your Munificence in an unbounded 

 Expence, and your unwearied Afiiduity in the Study of Na- 

 TURR. A glorious fludy ! that leads the human mind into a 

 truly religious contemplation of the numberlefs, flupendous, 

 and incomprehenfible Works of the Awful and Eternal Divi- 

 nity. As a perfon who has always attached himfelf to this 



inftrudive and delightful purfuit, permit me thus publicly to 

 offer my acknowledgment, by dedicating this work, my 

 BIUTISH CONCHOLOGY, to your Patronage ; and 1 iLall 

 efteem myfelt happy if it meets with your Approbation and 

 Protedion. My earneft wiflies are, that the Almighty mjy 



grant 



