124 CHAPTER 36. 
jedt. In an interval of more than forty 
years, between the firft and laft editions, 
much of that credulity which b^d obtained, 
refpefting the powers of iimples, among the 
writers of the laft century, had abated. Se- 
veral excellent publications had taken place 
abroad, which, aided by improvements at 
home, enabled Pale to feledt better materi« 
als, and give his laft edition the importance 
of a new work. Scarcely in any author is 
there a more copious coiledlion of fynonyms, 
a circumftance which, independent of much 
Other intrific worth, will long continue the 
ufe of the bookj with thofe who wifli to 
purfue the hiftory of my article through aU 
former writers on the fubjecto 
In 1730, Mr, Dale publiibed, The 
Antiquities of Harwich; and Dover 
Court," in 4°, pp. 464. tab. 14. writ-, 
ten by Si/as Taylor, Gent, about the year 
1 676, with large notes, amo,unting to much 
the greater part of the book. Howfoever 
refpedable our author may appear as an an- 
tiquary in this volume, he is equally fo as a 
naturalift, in general. His Hiftory of the 
Figured Fofliis of the Cliff is very exaft, 
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