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this little infect, as in the Behemoth, or the Levia- 
than. It is a flight high enough for the faculties of 
man to rife by contemplation to a competent know- 
lcge of the meaneft work God ever condefcended to 
form. That which was not beneath the Majefty of 
God to make, can never furely be beneath the dignity 
of a rational creature to contemplate. I am. 
My Lord, 
Tour Lordjhip’s mofl obliged, and 
rnoft obedient humble Servant, 
Philip Skelton. 
IV. The ExtraEi of a Letter from Dr . James 
Mounfey, Phyfician of the Czarina ’ s Army^ 
to Henry Baker F. R> 5. concerning the 
Everlafting Fire in Perfia. 
SIR, 
Rtad A pril 27. 
1748. 
A S you inform me any thing relating 
to the Natural Hiilory of Terjia 
will prove agreeable, I have fome time ago wrote 
to a couple of Gentlemen, a Phyfician and a Sur- 
geon, both Men of Learning and Veracity, and my 
very intimate Friends, who are now with the Am- 
baflador from this Court to Terjia , and they, both 
have promifed to communicate to me whatever 
they fhall meet with remarkable in that Country, 
; , and 
