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forth with his amendments, together with some additions of 

 the like argument to be substituted in the place of the New 

 Atlantis, which shall be there omitted. These additions will 

 be the same with those in the version of the forementioned 

 Frenchman, put into Latin ; seeing we could not find the 

 English originals from which he translates them, unless you, 

 when you see the book, shall condemn those additions as 

 adulterate. 



For your observations on those places, either not rightly 

 understood, or not accurately turned out of the English by 

 you published, (which, from one not a native, in his first 

 essay, and growing in knowledge together with his years, 

 if they be many, no man needs wonder at it, who under 

 stands the physiological variety of an argument of such 

 extent, and rendered difficult by such an heap of things of 

 which it consists, and for the expressing of which there is 

 not a supply of words from the ancients, but some of a new 

 stamp, and such as may serve for present use, are required). 

 I entreat you not to deny me the sight of them, that so T 

 may compare them with the corrections which my brother 

 (now with God) did make with a very great deal of pains. 

 But whether the truth of them answers his diligence will 

 be best understood by yourself, and those few others by 

 whom such elegancies can be rightly judged of. 



I send you here a catalogue of these writings* which I 

 had in MS. out of the study of Sir William Boswel, and 

 which I now have by me, either written by the Lord Bacon 

 himself, or by some English amanuensis, but by him re 

 vised ; as the same Sir William Boswel (who was pleased 

 to admit me to a most intimate familiarity with him) did 

 himself tell me. Among my copies (as the catalogue which 

 comes with this letter shows) you will find the History of 



* These were the papers which I. Gruter afterwards 

 published, under the title of Scripta Philosophica. 



