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INTRODUCTION 



THE farther refearchcs we make in- 

 to this admirable fcene of things \ 

 the more beauty and harmony we 

 fee in them : And the ftronger and clearer 

 convictions they give us, of the being, power 

 and wifdom of the divine Architect, who 

 has made all things to concur with a won- 

 derful conformity, in carrying on, by va- 

 rious and innumerable combinations of mat- 

 ter, fuch a circulation of caufes ; and eiFe&s, 

 as was neceffary to the great ends of na- 

 ture. 



And iince we are affured that the all wife 

 Creator has obferved the mod exad propor- 

 tions, of * number \ weight and meafure, in 

 the make of all things ; the moil likely way 

 therefore, to get any infight into the na- 

 ture of thofe parts of the creation, which 

 come within our obfervation, muft in all 

 reafon be to number, weigh and meafure- 

 And we have much encouragement to pur- 

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