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in'? them to the moft diftant Parts of the Globe we 
inhabit, where the purpofes of their Million, fo im- 
portant to the Science of Aftronomy, could beft be 
fulfilled ; while ye alone enjoy among your Fellow 
Academies the Reputation of having both fent and re- 
warded them. 
And more ; thofe very Donations were fo liberally 
planned by that Attention to Science which has ever 
diftinguifhed His prefent Majefty’s Reign, and will 
for ever bear Teftimony of his enlarged Mind, and 
Difpofition favorable to the Advancement of true 
Knowledge, that the Surplus alone enabled you, with 
his Royal Approbation, to inftitute Experiments on 
the Attraction of Mountains, amidft the barren and 
bleak Precipices of the Highlands of Scotland, which 
then, for the firft Time, beheld Inftruments of the 
niceft Conftruction tranfported to the Summits of their 
pathlefs Crags, and Men, ufed to other Habitations, 
voluntarily refiding in temporary Huts, eager to ex- 
prefs a grateful Senfe of their Royal Patron’s Libe- 
rality, 
