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than juft giving their Names. Many 

 will imagine I have not been attentive 

 enough to the Manufcripts or Me- 

 dals ; and others, perhaps, would have 

 wiflied me to have filled twenty Pa- 

 ges with a Defcription of the Mole 

 Cricket. Thus every one would have 

 been moft pleafed I fhould have en- 

 larged on that Subjedt which beft 

 fuited his particular Tafte. I have 

 taken the mean Way, having faid 

 fomtthing of every Thing, much of 

 nothing. It was not at all neceflary 

 to be more particular in the Account 

 of the feveral Articles comprifed un- 

 der the general Titles : I mean only 

 fo far to lead my Reader, that he 

 may with Eafe find the Matter treat- 

 ed of in viewing the Colleftion, and 

 there make his own Obfervations on 

 the Nature and Properties of it 5 and 



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