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others of the fame kind, that have been formerly difco. 
vered. 
Hence he proceeds to (hew, That thefe Experiments are a 
proper ftudy for the Gentlemen of this Nation, in which he 
finds them already well engaged : As alfo, that they will be 
beneficial to our Wits and Writers , who, if truly worthy men, 
will find in the of Nature an inexhauftible Treafure for 
■Fancy and Invention , which will be difclofed proportionably 
to the increafe of their knowledge : Further,that they are ad- 
vantageous to the Intereftof the Nation, by enlarging the 
Trade and Power thereof. 
Upon which and feveral other accounts ( notpoffible to be 
contracted here ) our Hiflorian concludes his Difcourje , with 
giving us a Catalogue of thole, which at this prefent compofe 
the Royal Society^ amounting near to two hundred} whereof 
the King’s Mayefly is Founder and Patron, Among the Fellows 
are three of the Greateft Princes of Europe , his Royal High- 
tiefs the Duke of Tor\y his Highnefs Prince Rupert, Count Pa- 
latine of the Rhine f and his Highnefs Ferdinand Albert , Duke 
of Brunfrvief and Lunenburg : Then, the two Archbifhops of 
England , and four Bijhops ; of Dukes, MarqueJJes, Earls 0 \Vi(- 
counts , and Banns, Englijh and Scotch , twenty nine ; of L(nigbts P 
thirty five 5 oF]DoBors and Batchellors of Divinity ^ fourteen ; of 
DoBors and Candidates of Phyjicl twenty one; of Efquires, 
and other Gentlemen, and Merchants, fixty four s oi Strangers^ 
fixteen. 
After the Enumeration of which, he recommends this 'Un- 
dertaking to the EngUjh Nation $ 'to the braveft people , the moft 
generous Defign, which at once regards the dif covering of New 
(ecrets 5 and the Purifying and Repairing all the profitable things 
of Antiquity : and here he reprefeuts, that if now this Enter- 
prife fhouid chance to fail for want of Patronage and Revenue , 
the World would not only be fruftrated of their prefent Ex- 
pectations, but nave juft ground to defpair of anyfutureLz- 
bours 3 towards the increafe of PraUical and Vfeful knowledge. 
But he hopes and prefages,that the Englijb Nation will lay hold 
on this opportunity, to de/erve the Applaufe of Mankind , for 
having encouraged and fupported a ]¥° r K> which, inftead of 
barren 
