SCNHRE 

THoMAS FALCONER, Efq; 
OF 
OT 2 A ON RC Te 
T is but juftice, my dear Tom, to ad- 
drefs toyou a work which was begun 
with your approbation, carried on under 
your improving ftrictures, and has fo 
often amufed us during the many pleafing 
hours we have pafled together. 
At the fame time that I own the many 
advantages I have reaped from making 
you confident to the productions of an 
idle and rural pen; let me not fail in 
my acknowlegements to our common 
friend the Hon. Dartnes BarrincTon, 
who, with unremitting ardor, and with 
an honeft freedom, has favored me with 
the mofi inftructive hints on the fubjec& 
of the following theets. 
Would! would to Heaven that I 
was capable of adding the third to the 
number! But the grateful tribute of a 
A 2 fich 
