DEDICATION. 
To fpeak of your Lordship as is the cuftom on thefe oc^ 
cafions, would appear with a new air; for to you, the lan- 
auacre of dedications would be truth : yet though it were no 
more than ecchoing the univerfal voice, I know 'twould be un- 
pleafing; for all applaufe founds to a delicate ear like flattery. 
Though I fhall not crowd the page addrefled immediately to 
your Lordship's eye with praife ; or tranfcribe their wonder 
who fee greatnefs fo joined with affability, and knowledge fo 
united to politenefs; one thing I fhall fay, and 'tis with pride 
and pleafure I ftiall fpeak it, that in this age, unfavourable as 
it is to literature, the leaft attempt toward rendering know- 
ledge ufeful is not without its patron. When England fhall be 
able to produce a Linn^^^us, he will not a want a Clifford. 
Though I can by this addrefs add nothing to that great opi- 
nion the world juftly entertain of your Lordship's virtues, I 
am confcious that I fliall, in publifhing it, do myfelf the highefl 
honour it is poffible I fhould obtain. Science can boaft no 
greater glory, than to receive the patronage of Virtue. 
I have the honour to be, 
With the greatefl refpedb, 
My L O R D, 
Your Lordship's mod obedient. 
bluorft aroBir : 
^inii)! "to lov/oq ofb u-. 
(hbonJOHN HILL. 
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