PREFACE. 



Fifty copies of the Paper which must be 

 considered as the leading portion of this tract 

 were printed, when it had been newly read, for 

 presents to members of the Institution and other 

 friends of the Writer. They were then eagerly 

 sought after, and soon distributed. But it has 

 happened to them, what often happens to small 

 impressions of small tracts, that they have nearly 

 passed out of sight, so that it was with difficulty 

 one was discovered in Bath by a gentleman who 

 wished to peruse it, and who had previously been 

 obliged to be content with the account of it in 

 the pages of venerable Sylvanus Urban, and the 

 copious extracts which were there made from it. 



Six-and-twenty years have since passed, and I 



am invited by the members of the Bath Literary 



Club to prepare another Edition. As I consider 



this a testimony, which no one should regard 



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