DEDICATION. 



the trouble of perfuing the fame 

 Subjeft. 



It were indeed at prefent to be 

 wiflied, that where Fortune has be- 

 flowed (tho' fo far only) the know- 

 ledge of a fuccefsful Form of artful 

 Pradice on the Oak^ it had not de- 

 nied both the Gift and Propriety of 

 an elaborate Defcription of it : as in 

 its natural Produdlions alone, it is 

 the Source of all the Riches and 

 Strength of Britons^ and a minifteri- 

 al Defender of our Lives and Liber- 

 ties againft Foreigners. 



I HOPE however to have fucceed- 

 ed, tho' not in a Polite, yet in a 

 middle manner between extreams ; 



as 



