OE IMYo ELTERAR Yo LEE, 39 
NorwiTHsTANDING my authorial career was finifhed on the 1791. 
preceding year, yet no fmall trouble attends my paft labors. 
The public continues to flatter me with demands for new edi- 
tions of my works: to the correction and improvement of which, 
Iam obliged to pay confiderable attention. Early this year 
ve ACCOUNT OF 
Lonpon, THirp 
mentioned at p. 34. Epirion. 
appeared a new edition of my account of London, as I ha 
None of my acquaintance will deny that I write a moft ille- 
gible hand. In order to deliver my labors intelligible to pofte- 
rity, on Yanuary ft, of this year, I took into’ my fervicey 
as fecretary, Thomas, the fon of Roger Jones, our parifh-clerk, a 
worthy, fober, and fteady young man: I determined to profit 
of his excellent hand-writing to copy my feveral manufcripts, 
and he has difcharged his duty very much to my fatif- 
faction. bee 
Mr. White, at the latter end of this year, printed a third 3792. 
edition of my Hifory of Quadrupeds, with moft of the old plates _ Cue ae 
re-engraven, and feveral new ones. This work was always a Tuirp Epition. 
favorite one of mine: I beftowed very true pains on it: and _ 
added, I may fay, every new animal which has to this time 
reached the knowlege of the naturalifts. 3 
In the fpring of the fame year appeared my letter on Mail Lerrer on 
Coaches. 1 was irrefiltibly compelled to refume my pen, from Mat# Coacues. 
the oppreffions which the poor labored under, by the demands 
made on them to repatr the roads for the paffage of the 
mails, with a nicety, and at an expence beyond their powers. 
Let the little performance fpeak my apology for the publi- 
cation. 
Ty 
