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costly work. Nay, I hope, considerably 

 more than all ; as I have consulted abund- 

 ance of authors, and taken abundance of 

 passages from them, whom I apprehend 

 the Doctor had not seen. 



4. I have another objection to this in- 

 genious book; I doubt some parts of it 

 are not true. The author, indeed, has 

 corrected many vulgar errors, but has, I 

 fear, adopted others in their place. Many 

 times he exposes the credulity of other 

 writers, but does he not sometimes fall un- 

 der the same imputation ? As where he 

 terms presumption, to deny the existence of 

 Bishop Pont oppidan's Kraken, and the 

 Sea-serpent; the one a mile across, the 

 other raising himself out of the water, 

 higher than the main mast of a man of 

 war ! Could one who made the least scruple 

 of rejecting these gross absurdities, accuse 

 other writers of credulity ? 



