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was made up. By that investigation therefore it must 

 be considered as superseded. 



I do not know that any inference of importance can 

 be drawn from a comparison of the two ; but to make 

 the comparison easier, I have referred in the footnotes 

 to the corresponding passages of the Sylva Sylvarum. 

 It will be seen that the order of the inquiry is entirely 

 changed ; so much so that I can hardly think Bacon 

 had the Latin before him when he wrote the Eng- 

 lish ; for in point of arrangement the Latin seems to 

 be the more systematic of the two. 



J. S. 



