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had made a large colledion of natural pro- 

 dudions from moft parts of the world. — To 

 come ftill nearer, even to our own times, his 

 prefent majefty king George III. has, with a 

 liberality and munificence equal to the Auguftan 

 age, become the patron and enourager of the 

 fciences and arts ; and generoufly founded and 

 endowed an academy of drawing, painting, ar- 

 chitedure and fculpture. The numerous and 

 noble colle6lion of paintings, manufcripts, 

 and books in all languages and fciences, 

 (but particularly in natural hiftory) together 

 with all kinds of natural and artificial rarities 

 and curiofities collected by his majefty from 

 all parts of the world, in the courfe of a few 

 years, will defervedly rank the king of Great- 

 Britain's cabinet with that of the greateft princes 

 of Europe. 



They who draw after nature, on account of 

 natural hiftory, Ihould reprefent things juftly, 

 and according to Nature, and not ftrive to exalt 

 or raife her above herfelf ; for by fo doings in- 

 ftead of inftrudling, they will lead the world 

 into errors -, nor can the works of two authors 



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