vi ADVERTISEMENT. 



An objection may be made by fomc, that no plates adorn 

 thcfe volumes — engravings, except of novel objcdls, or 

 really illuftrative, and fuch, notvvithftanding much exertion, 

 it was not my good fortune to procure, tend little to the 

 value of a work of fcience. Two maps, prefumed more 

 requifite, have been conftrudled from the beft materials. 



The biography of the valued Author of the following 

 fheets, having been given by himfclf in his " Literary Lite," 

 to the commencement of the year 1793, little remains for 

 me to add. To that period his health and felicity had ex- 

 perienced little interruption; the illnefs of an amiable 

 daughter then began to embitter his days, and, after the moft 

 unremitting attention that parental fondnefs could dictate, 

 he felt the cruel pang of feparation, on the firft of May 

 1794.; this fhock his fpirits never completely recovered. In 

 the April of the enfuing year, the patella of the knee fnap- 

 ped, while defcending a flight of fleps, an accident which 

 confined him long to his room, yet, notwithflanding his 

 advanced age, and the bones never again reuniting, he re- 

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