TO THE READER. * 



of them would admit of, I digefted the 

 fubjects of the MINUTES, andfufpended 

 them to their correfponding fubjects in the 

 SYSTEM ; through which means the two 

 regifters may be read together, or fepa- 

 rately, at the option of the reader. 



I was induced to adopt this method, 

 with lefs hefitation, as I am ftill more 

 and more convinced that PRACTICAL 

 KNOWLEDGE is never conveyed more forci* 

 bly than in MINUTES, made while the 

 MINUTIAE of practice are frem in the 

 memory, and the attendant CIRCUM- 

 STANCES are frill prefent to the imagina- 

 tion. Nor am I fingular in this opinion. 

 A mafterly writer conveys the fame fen- 

 timent, in more elegant language. " It 

 mutt," fays he, " be acknowledged, that 

 the methods of difquifition and teaching 

 may be fometimes different, and on very 

 good reafon undoubtedly; but, for my 

 part, I am convinced that the method of 

 teaching which approaches moft nearly to 

 the method of inveftigation, is incompa- 

 A 3 rably 



