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THE 



U T H O R's 



PREFACE 



AS former ages principally encouraged 

 philological and antiquarian enquiries % 

 this prefent age, at lead in Sweden, favours 

 the ftudy of Natural Hiftory. 



Such changes muft he afcribed to geniufes, 

 who understand how to make thoie fciences, 

 which they have chofe for their principal ftudy, 

 agreeable to the Public -, and which Sciences, 

 being in general ufeful to the whole com- 

 munity, every individual thereof can reap 

 fome advantage from it, and thereby gratify 

 that fc.f-love implanted in the breaft of ail 

 mankind in the purluit of them. 



When the pride of a nation is flattered with 

 the vain glory of b:ing of great antiquity, the 

 author of iuch an opinion is always favoured 5 

 and every little cue urn fiance conducive to fur- 

 : r confirm it, is carefully recollected and noted* 

 li.us when the fubjedts of the creation are re-* 



a 3 prefented 



