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wholly confounded and unable to explain them, till Mr. Johnson, 
having picked out the meaning by little and little, said to the 
man, ‘Heb is a preposition, I believe, Sir; is it not?’ My 
countryman, recovering some spirits upon the sudden question, 
cried out, ‘So I humbly presume, Sir!’ very comically.” 
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Os eweyadivOn ro épya cov, Kipue!—aavra év copia éroinoas. 
“O Lord, how manifold are Thy works; in wisdom hast Thou made 
them all!” 
“ Benedicite universa germinantia in terra Domino ; laudate et superex- 
altate Hum in secula.”—Hymn. it. Pueror. v. 76. 
“Bless the Lord, everything that groweth on the earth; praise and mag- 
nify Him for ever.” —Song of the Three Children (Shadrach, Meshech, and 
Abednego), Apocrypha, v. 16. 
We have now rendered our three outlandish inscriptions into 
plain English, and hope we have satisfied our curious readers, as 
we have quieted our own consciences. 
There is another point urged against us, to which we mean to 
put in the plea of not guilty. It is urged in more than one quarter 
that the editor of the ‘ Phytologist’ should not be anonymous. 
We justify this concealment, in our own case, by authority or 
common practice, by the ordinary dictates of prudence, and by 
other arguments which may. be more easily conceived than stated. 
Some of our contributors prefer writing anonymously, and we do 
not think ourselves authorized to request them to lay aside their 
mask. We, with all possible deference to our friends, wish to 
remain incognito. We will sedulously avoid giving any umbrage 
to our scientific brethren, and when there is any valid reason for 
obtaining the name of any anonymous discoverer of facts which 
should be known to the promoters of science, we will not hesi- 
tate to give the address of any such contributor, confidentially of 
course. 
We have still somewhat to say to our kind friends who appear 
to be concerned lest the dignity of science should suffer in our 
hands. We have indeed made a confession of our literary and 
scientific intentions at the very commencement of our under- 
taking, and we will not shrink from its avowal now. We profess 
to write for the many, but we do not therefore admit that we 
must necessarily compromise either the dignity of science or 
our own. 
