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without being pofitive , our Interpreter only profofes the doubts 
he hath of the Authors miftaking fomecimesi it not being to be 
expecaed, that he who undertakes to explain an Author (hould be 
bound to make his Panegyrick, nor maintain all he hath writ- 
ten. 
In fliort, the importance of our Interpreters Notes confifts in 
thefe two things : Either they explain pafTages only remarquable 
for their obfcurity, and for the trouble which Learn'd men have 
taken to clear them j or they are about other things likewife ob- 
fcure and difficult , but fiich as contain precepts neceflary and 
-ufeful to Architefture. 
The Figures, whir h ferve for illuflratlon, are done with no 
ordinary care and elegancy ; amongfl: which there are, the Re- 
prefentation of the Parifian Obfervatory, erefted by that King 
for making Celeftial and other Natural Obfervations ; Models 
of two new Engines for raifing heavy burthens , fo contrived as 
to avoid Rubbing, invented by the Interpreter himfelf; the 
one by a Roler, the other by a Lever, p, 280. 324. An Engin 
for raifing water very high and uncelTantly, and that in great 
quantity, without employing any external force; A Scheme 
of the Organ of the Antients ; as alfo of their Caupuhx ^ 
and Balifix ^ the former carting Javelots, the latter Stones. All 
Three defcribed by this Interpreter with much learning. The 
Models of thefe Engins and many more , both Antient and Mo- 
dern , Monfieur ttrrdut faiih are to be found in the Royal Li- 
brary at P^r/^^ , where thofeof the Philofophical French Academy 
keep their ordinary Aflemblies. 
If. Anthonii !e Gr^nd Dijfertatio deCare/^tia Se^fus Cogm- 
tionisin B RUT I S : Londini, apud ]oh. Martyn, R, Soc. 
Typographtm ^ ad Injigae Campan£ in Cdmeterio Pauli, 
1671. 
TH E Author of th.s Trafl having confiderd with himfelf, 
what it is rhat hathlnduc'd men to believe, that Brutes have 
knowledge ^ which inducements heafcribes to the icduftry, viva- 
city, and ftrange works of fundry of them And having exploded 
the Ji'tjiotelim definition of the Soul ^ as extravagant, and 
unintelligible ; 
