GENEALOGY. 



uiclions he will rencounter, in (applying the 

 ;:ties, and in drawing the truth o:it of aa 

 abyis of darknrfs. We cannot fufficiently ad- 

 the rdblution, aflfiduity and perfeverance 

 of thofe learned men who have undertaken thofe 

 labours, and have executed them in the greateft 

 degree o: :tion of which they are liifcep- 



.:re obliged to refer our readers to 

 the genealogical tables of M. Hubner themfelves, 

 and to a fhort work which his fon has publifhed, 

 by w?y of dialogue, to facilitate the underlland- 

 ing them. Theie are books that can fcarce be 

 confulted but as dictionaries , and which will 

 be found necefiary, but of which it is impof- 

 fible here to make an analyfis, or even to give an 

 abftracl. With regard to the learning of gene- 

 alogy in general, nothing is rcquifite but fight 

 and memory. 



IV. The fecond object of this fcience is the 

 knowledge of the names, the days of the births 

 marriages, and the alliances of the fove- 

 nd other illuftnous perfonages, 

 who at this time reign or govern in the world : 

 alto that may have great utility, but 

 in which the underitanding has no fhare. I his 

 -c of the memory alone, and who- 

 ever ct an almanac, or fhort 

 genealogical dictionary, is as learned on opening 

 his book, as he that has thought tit to load his 

 men: !i thcfe nutters, and whjch per; 



y might 



