To the Most Honourable 



HENRY/ 

 MAEQUESS OF KENT. 



Earl of Rarrold, and Viscount Goderich, Lord Chamberlain 

 of Her Majesty's Household, Lord Lieutenant of the 

 County of Hereford, and one of the Lords of Her 

 Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council. 



My Lord, 



rjnHE only Excuse the Translator of this Voyage has to 

 viake Your LordsMp, for inesmninq to iJid your Name 

 hcfore it, is that he found it in the Original, and hojfd your 

 LordshijJ, who has distinguish' d yourself hy your Humanity 

 and Love of the Belles lettres, will he as loell pleas'd to see it in 

 an English, as in a French Dress. The Origincd, 'tis true, 

 Jias the advantage of being known to more Nations, and the 

 sjyrcading your Lordship's Fame, teas a Justice the Language 

 of our Enemies ovfd to the many high Qualities that have 



1 Henry Grey, or de Grey, Duke of Kent, succeeded to the title in 

 1702, and in the third year of Queen Anne was made Lord-Chamber- 

 lain of her Household, Lord- Lieutenant of the county of Hereford, and 

 a Privy-Gouncillor. In December 1706 he was created Marquis of 

 Kent, Earl of Harold, and Viscount Goodrich, and in the year 1710, 

 on resigning his office of Lord-Chamberlain, he was advanced to the 

 dignity of Duke of Kent. {The Peerage of England, 1710, p. 155.) 



Nichols, in his Literanj Anecdotes (iv, 577), mentions that the 

 Rev. John Laurence dedicated a treatise on the " L^^sefulness of the 

 Barometer" to him ; and the same author mentions him in connection 

 with Roger Cotes, professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy 

 at Cambridge, who w^as tutor to his sons, Anthony, Earl of Harold, and 

 Lord Henry de Grey. {Ihld.^ ii, 127.) — iS'ote by E. Delmar Morgan. 



