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editions, can judge of the pains that the 

 new modelling has cost me : but I shall 

 think them well bestowed, if I should be 

 less open to those criticisms, which must 

 have presented themselves to every reader 

 of a methodical turn c-f mind. Another 

 alteration, which I trust will be thought 

 an improvement, is that of throwing the 

 greater part of the notes to the end of the 

 volumes. One note, of much greater length 

 than I could have wished, is added to the 

 second volume, in consequence of a very 

 pointed attack from my friend Mr. Knight, 

 in the second edition of the Analytical 

 Inquiry ; it is indeed almost a controver- 

 sial dissertation on the temple of Vesta, 

 tisually called the Sybill's temple, at Ti- 

 voli : I am persuaded, however, that I 

 have made no small amends for the tedi- . 

 ousness of controversy, by some very cu- 

 lious information I received on the subject, 



