IV DEDICATION. 



dulgent. Their general tendency at least* as 

 calculated to render an interesting and useful 

 science accessible, and in every point eligible , 

 to the more accomplished and refined of her own 

 sex, could not fail to have been approved by 

 her, who knew and exemplified so well the value 

 and importance of such pursuits, and their in- 

 estimable effects upon the mind. These hopes, 

 which my late honoured friend and patroness 

 had, with her usual benignity, encouraged, are 

 now most unhappily defeated, and I have no re- 

 source but in your Lordship, who is no stranger 

 to my pretensions, nor to my sentiments, and in 

 whom I have not now for the first time to seek 

 an able and enlightened patron. 



I remain, with the profoundest respect, 



my Lord, 



your Lordship s most obliged 

 and obedient servant, 



J. E. SMITH. 



Norwich, 

 Nov. 15, 1807. 



