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Next, to draw to a Conclufion of the 

 Whole — Some circumftances immediately 

 following, and indeed the outward appear'- 

 ances of this entire Tra6t, give me the un- 

 avoidable caufe to fuggeft more exprefsly 

 than at firft, that I would not be thought by 

 my Stricture of this Sylvan Beauty out of 

 the vaft Campaign of Nature, and this im^ 

 perfedt Publication of my Difcoveries there^ 

 on, to have the determinate intention to ac- 

 quire to my felf a Trophy, tho' but a very 

 (iiminutive one of Fame, or any thing elfe. 

 It being certain that I {hould much rather 

 have chofen to have made this my firft fmall 

 appearance in the Literary world incognito 

 wholly, and confequently to have publiiht 

 no local memoirs at leaft of my adventures 

 of this kind ^ but to have let the whole have 

 come unguarranteed abroad, like a daughter 

 of the Clouds, or the offspring of Night y 

 if I could have perfuaded miy felf, that the 

 management of my paft Arguments, had 

 been as clearly convincing of the efficacy of 

 the more feafible Pradice, as the declarative 

 power of courfe muft be, of giving ocular 

 Demonftration of the real Succefs of the mcft 

 ^npronufing, 



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