TO THE 
RIGHT HONOURABLE 
JOHN STEWART. 
EARL of BUTE, 
LORD MOUNT-STEWART, 
KNIGHT of the Noble Order of the THISTLE, 
Groom of the Stole to His Royal Highnefs the 
PRINCE of WALES, 
My Lord, 
T7' O RGIVE my prefumption in placing Your 
Honourable Name in the front of this Second Part 
of my Gleanings of Natural Hiflory , without Your 
knowledge or confent : It is Your Lordlhip’s great love 
* a of, 
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