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riage in time. Why Should I not now fpeak as I really 

 think, or why be guilty of ingratitude which my heart dis- 

 claims. 1 efcaped by the providence and protection of hea- 

 ven ; and lb little Store do 1 let upon the advantage of my 

 own experience, that I am Satisfied, were I to attempt the 

 fame journey again, it would not avail me a Itraw, or 

 hinder me from perifhing miferably, as others have done, 

 though perhaps a different way. 



I have only to add, that were it probable, as in my de- 

 cayed ftate of health it is not, that I Ihould live to fee a fe- 

 cond edition of this work, all well-founded, judicious re- 

 marks Suggefted fhould be gratefully and carefully attend- 

 ed to ; but I do Solemnly declare to the public in general, 

 that I never will refute or anfwer any cavils, captious, 

 or idle objections, Such as every new publication Seems 

 unavoidably to give birth to, nor ever reply to thuSe witti- 

 cifms and criticisms that appear in newSpapers and periodi- 

 c I writings. What I have written I have written. My readers 

 have before them, in the prefent volumes, all that I Shall ever 

 fay, directly or indirectly, upon the Subject ; and I do, with- 

 out one moment's anxiety, trull my defence to an impartial, 

 well-iuformed, and judicious public. 



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