

T O 



WILLIAM CONSTABLE, £%; 



of BURTON-^CONSTABLE, 

 SIR, 



THE zeal with which you promote the 

 great caufe of learning, and efp^ci- 

 ally that of Natural Hiftory, the Polite 

 Arts and Antiquities, intitle yon to the 

 regard and homage of every one who is 

 i:onverfant with Arts and Sciences : but 

 the favour you were fo kind to beftoXv up- 

 on me, before you proceeded on the tour 

 through the different parts of Europe, ©a- 

 cooirages me to take this early opportunity 

 to congratulate you on your return to your 

 philofophic retirement, and publicly to ac- 

 knowledge the gratitude and attachment 

 which will ever prompt me to think my- 

 felf happy in my weak endeavours to ap- 

 prove my conduft and fentiments to my 

 friends and benefa(^ors. 



Mar 



