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N.B. The foregoing Tapers having been read be- 
fore the Society thirty Tears fince, were then depo- 
sed by their Author in their Archives, and. not pub- 
lijhed ; he being fen fib le that he might have adven- 
tured ultra crepidam ; and apprehenjive leaf by fiome 
unguar dedExprejfiion he might incur the Cenjure of the 
Sacred Order. Nor had they now been printed , but 
at the T>efire of a late Committee of the Society , who 
were pleafed to think, them not unworthy the Trefis . 
Here the Reader is defired to obferve , that Mr. 
William Whifton\r Book , entituled , A New Theory of 
the Earth, was not pub lijhed till about a 7 ear and a 
half after the T)ate hereof and was riot prefented be- 
fore June 2,4, 1696. to the Royal Society. 
. 
FINIS. 
erratum. 
Pag. 1 1 8. lin. 2 5, 26. read Relation. 
