TO 
V 
^iR JOSEPH BANKS, Bart- 
Prefident of the Royal Society, 
See. See. Sec. 
' BEAR ffiR, 
AS foon as I had determined to lay 
before the public the enfuing 
Sketches, I could not hefitate in choof- 
ing whofe name I fliould wifh might 
honour the introduction of them into 
the world — To whom could a work 
of this nature, with fo much propri- 
ety be addreffed, as to him who had 
not only relinquiflied, for a feries of 
years, all the allurements that a po- 
iilhed nation could difplay to opu- 
lence and early age, but had expofed 
A z himfelf 
