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own Remarks, rude as they are and 

 unfafhioned, that Perfons of more Ex- 

 perience may correEi^ and Jinijh what 

 he has only begun, by pointing out 

 to them SubjeEls worthy of Examina- 

 tion. 



Their Novelty and Singularity 

 is fo unquefionable, that if he thought 

 he flood in need of any other Apo- 

 logy, he would have fuppreffed his 

 Efjay, thd encouraged to the Pub- 

 lication of it by Perfons much fit- 

 perior to himfelf to whom he had 

 the Honour of jloewing fome of the 

 mofi curious of thofe ObjeEls he 

 defer ibes. He can affure the Learn- 

 ed, that he has wrote nothing but 

 plain Matters of FaB, as he has 

 nothing more in V tew than a f tuple 

 Narrative ; whatever goes beyond 

 -this, and favours of an Hypothefs, 

 he has, as may be expe&ed from 

 a timorous Author, advanced with 

 as much Caution, as he thought 



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