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fince it is Hiftory I have written, where Matter of Fad, and not 
Romance, where Eloquence, is the chief Defign. 
The Copper Plates, which at my own Charges I have caufed 
to be engraven here, I acknowledge might have been done finer 
in London ; but llnce I had the Original by me, whereby I was 
able from time to time to correct in the Ingraving what Errors 
happen’d in drawing the Figures, I rather chofe to have them 
done by me here : And tho’ the Draughts of the Engraver be 
courfe, yet I have endeavoured what in me lay to have the Fi- 
gures true and well proportion’d. Wifhing all Health and Hap- 
plnefs to your felf, Profperity and Succefs to your Honourable 
and Famous Society. I continue, 
From my Houle at 
Dundee, April 2 j, 
1 70 P. 
Patrick Blair, 
