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ing them to the nio.it diftant Parts of the Globe we 
inhabit, where the purpofes of their Million, fo im- 
portant to the Science of Aftronomy, could beft be 
fulfilled ; while ye alone enjoy among your Fellow 
Academies the Reputation of having both fent and re- 
warded the iiu 
And more ; thofe very Donations were fo liberally 
planned by that Attention to Science which has ever 
diftinguifhed His prefent Majefly’s Reign, and will 
for ever bear TefKmony of his enlarged Mind, and 
Difpofition favorable to the Advancement of true 
Knowledge, that the Surplus alone enabled you, with 
his Royal Approbation, to institute Experiments on* 
the Attraction of Mountains, a mid ft the barren and 
bleak Precipices of the Highlands of Scotland, which 
then, for the fir ft Pirne, beheld I hftru merits of the: 
nice ft Con ft r u-dl i o 
patlilefs Crags, a 
n tranfported to the Summits of their 
nd Men, ufed to other Habitations, 
voluntarily refiding in temporary Huts, 
eager to ex- 
prefs a grateful Senfe 'of their Royal Patron’s Li be- 
at. 
