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T O H E R 



R T A L H I G H N E S 



THE 



PRINCESS of WALES. 



MADAM, 



iOME of the moft wonderful Produclions of America have now the 

 Honour to lay themfelves at the Feet of your ROYAL HIGHNESS*; 

 Things new and ftrange to the Inhabitants of this Side of the Globe ; 

 and, which muft therefore neceffarily excite, in Minds of infinitely lefs Difcern- 

 ment and Piety than that of your ROYAL HIGHNESS, exalted and 

 religious Sentiments of the Power, Wifdom, and Goodnefs of that Almighty 

 Being, who not only formed the Univerfe, but has adorned every Part of it with an 

 inconceivable Variety of Beauty and Magnificence. 



It was in Obedience to the Commands of our late mofl Gracious QUEE N, who 

 condefcended to over-look and approve my Drawings of the moft extraordinary 

 Curiofities of Nature obfervable , in Carolina, and the adjacent Countries fubjeâ: 

 to the Crown of Great Britain, that I applied myfeîf to compile a Natural 

 Hijlory of thofe Parts of the "^f orld ; and Her Majejîy was pleafed to take the 

 firft Volume of this Work under her own Royal Patronage. 



Such an Inftance of Goodnefs emboldened me to hope your ROYAL 

 HIGHNESS would vouchfafe the like Honour to this fécond and laft Vo- 

 lume; and I have been fo happy not only to obtain Pardon for my Prefuniption, 

 but likewife to find the utmoft of my Ambition gratified in the Leave you have 

 been pleafed to grant me, of publifliing my Labours under the ProtecHon of your 

 Illuflriom Name. 



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