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a lujus natura\ or with p liny to fay, Hoc nobis mira-' 
“ culum^ftbi ludibrium^f ingenioja Jinxit natural"' 
The peculiar (hare of your friendfhip, with which 
you are pleafed to honour me, makes me flatter myfelf 
that you will give me credit for the truth of any fadls 
advanced in the courfe of the detail, that are not irre- 
fragably evidenced by a recourfe to the preparation in its 
prefent ftate. 
I am, See. 
Norfolk-ftreet, 
June 6, 1774. 
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XXXI. Qbjer- 
