ADVERTISEMENT. 



fcrent writer ; diffufe to a fault, and generally 

 very obfcu re and perplex in his manner of writ- 

 ing •, with refpect to which he has here been at- 

 tempted to be abridged, cleared up, and unfolded : 

 but his ftrain of low pleafantry and affeclation of 

 learning have been entirely dropt, as quite foreign, 

 and confequently without any detriment to the 

 fubject. 



Where the author, in the courfe of the work, 

 has omitted to explain a term of art -, or, where 

 any particular circumftance feemed to require a 

 further illuflration, a note has been added at the 

 bottom of the page, in order to render the book 

 as intelligible as poflible. 



With refpecT: to this tranflation, much of the 

 accuracy thereof is owing to a gentleman of un- 

 common eminence in this fort of knowledge, who 

 was pleafed to take upon him the revifal of the 

 (heets. 



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