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if he has not that Opportunity, by 

 confulting the Writers on Natural 

 Hiftory, his Curiofity will perhaps in 

 part be fatisfied. Had I not been 

 ftrongly urged to the Undertaking, 

 was I not fully fenfible, that 

 fomething of the Kind is much want- 

 ing, this Trifle had never been pub- 

 lifhed. If it is ufeful, I am fatisfied : 

 Jt is a Vanity for any one to think of 

 meeting with univerfal Approbation. 

 The judicious Reader will obferve, 

 that I have endeavoured to be as in- 

 telligible as poflible, making ufe of 

 very few Words but what are gene- 

 rally underftood : I therefore flatter 

 myfelf, that my Readers among the 

 Ladies will be very numerous, many 

 of them having, in my Company, la- 

 mented the Want of fomething of 

 this Kind, to direil their Obferva- 



tions 



