SAMUEL HARTLIB'S PUBLICATIONS. 79 



for the most part it proves a thankless office^ and the 

 more abundantly one is found to love the Publike, 

 the less he is loved/^ 



The treatise consists of 24 pages. The first page 

 begins : ^^ A Discovery for New Divisions, or, Setting 

 out of Lands, as to the best Forme : Imparted in 

 a letter to Samuel Hartlib, Esquire ;^^ signed by his 

 "Most faithful, thankful Friend, and humble Servant, 

 Cressy Dymock,^' on the 11th page. At page 22 is 

 another letter from C. D. The remainder consists of 

 miscellaneous matters ; the last page being " An 

 Advertisement to the Reader concerning the fore-going 

 Expositions of Sal Terr£e,'' that is " Nitre,'' or " Sal- 

 peter ;'' signed, " Thy willing and most assured servant, 

 Samuel Hartlib.'' 



He published, says Sir Egerton Brydges, in the 

 Gentleman's Mag. Yol. 72, p. 14, a treatise on "Set- 

 ting liand," also ^^ Adam's Art revived ;'' but the latter 

 seems to belong properly to Sir Hugh Piatt, according 

 to Harte's Essays on Husbandry. 



XXY. 



A True and Readie Way to Learne the Latine Tongue. 

 Attested by Three Excellently Learned and ap- 

 proved Authors of Three Nations : Eilhardus 

 Lubinus, a German ; Mr. Richard Carew, of 

 Anthony in Cornwall ; The French Lord of Mon- 

 taigne. Presented to the Unpartiall, both Publick 



