DEDICATION. 
nent for Virtue, and for all Improvements : under their In- 
fluence, we doubt not we fhall fee Britain celebrated as the 
Land of Knowledge ; and the now famous Names of Lewis 
and of Colbert, eclipfed by greater of our own. 
It is with this View, we prefume to hope, that the conti- 
nued Patronage of Science, tho’ the leafl, may yet be one of 
the many Glories attending Your great Name; and that, when 
the Wreathe of loftier Fame is filled, she may annex her Lau- 
rels ; which tho’ light, are yet eternal. 
I have the Honour to be, with the mofl perfed Duty, 
may it pleafe Your Royal Highnefs, 
Your Royal Highnefs’s 
mofl humble 
and devoted Servant, 
London, 
May4» '759* 
JOHN HILL. 
