PART THE FIFTH 



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lAVINC by reason of the largeness of the pre- 

 ceding volumes, which contain much more than 1 ex- 

 pected, some pages to spare, I am well pleased -with 

 an opportunity of inserting here another extract from, 

 one of the most ingenious treatises which I believe was 

 ever wrote upon the subject, Mr. Deutens's u Inquiry 

 into the Origin of the Discoveries attributed to the Mo- 

 derns." I am surprised that I never heard of it till 

 very lately, and 1 have met with exceeding few that 

 have; although the Latin original (I suppose, for I 

 have not se-n it) has been published pood part of 

 twenty years, and the elegant and judicious transla- 

 tion of it was printed eight or nine years ago. It is 

 true 1 am hereby convinced of several mistakes which 

 1 had been in for many years; but I look upon every 

 such conviction as a valuable acquisition : and I trust 

 iny heart will always say, both to God and man, 

 4 What I know not, teach thou me." 



TOL. v. 



