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II. A Letter, of Dr. Wallis to Dr. Sloan, Secre- 
tary to the Royal Society, giving an .4ccomt 
of fame late PaJTages bet men him and My n 
Heer Leibnitz^ of Hannover. 
April, 22, 1699. 
SIR, 
I Received lately a Letter from Myn Heer Leilniiz^ 
of March ^oth. 1699. wherein are fome Paffages 
relating to Mathematkks; of which I lhall not at pre- 
fent trouble you with a particular Account. 
After which follows a Paffage fomewhat relating to 
the Royal Society, in thele words : Nefch quor/iodo re- 
mjfius mm t radiant ur ftudia ^lticra^ cum tamen nunquam^ 
poft tot aditm apertos, facilm potuerint tra^iarL Sed 
puto infelkia temper a inter cejfijfe^ dum lella euros homl' 
mm altQ vertere^ Ita pauci admodum juvenes in prijlim 
gloria fpem fuccrejcunt . Etiam Natura quam paucos 
nunc Ohfervatores diligentes hahet, Vtinam^ ut Gallica 
Scientiarum Academia mper a Rege fuo reflitufa eft , 
etiam Veflrce Regime Sccietati novm calor infunderetur. 
To which what I have thought fit to return ia Anfwer, 
you will fte afterwards. 
He therv fends me the Copy of a large French Letter/ 
of /' Ahhe de la Charmoye to /' Ahhe Nlcaife^ g*^"^^^^S him 
a Particular Account of the Conten-s of a Treatife in*, 
tended to be fliortly publifhed, con^^f^rniog the Origi- 
nal of Nations; wherein, out of xknclent Myrho-ogy, 
he endeavours to difcover an Hiflorical Ac|:o^nt oi the 
Original of divers Nations. Which Copy Myn Heer 
Leibnitz defies me to commu-^ricate to the Right Reve» 
rend the BiOiop of Lichfield and Coventry [tlow Biftiop 
of Worcefier] (who doth fomitimss make ufe of fuch 
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