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ADVERTISEMENT. 
with which his fubje6ls are delineated, both as to their lize and diftinftive 
marks. The editor can fpeak with more confidence in this refpedt, as 
he was fortunate enough to purchafe at the fale of the late Duchefs 
Dowager of Portland’s Mufeum, the original drawings, from which 
Albin’s plates were engraved; and he has compared the plates with the 
drawings, and both again with the greater part of the natural obje6ls 
which they were intended to reprefent. 
An attempt has been made, to put the information contained in our 
countryman’s produ6lions into a more compa6l and digefled form ; while 
his figures of Englifh Spiders will derive additional advantage, from being 
joined in one volume with Mr. Clerck’s learned and elaborate Treatife. 
There can be no doubt, that feparately executed in a fuperior fiyle of 
truth and beauty, the two works would have been acceptable prefents to 
the public; but the editor flatters himfelf, that united as they here are, 
they will ftill farther be found to refleft mutual light on each other. 
