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advertisement 
HIS trifle was written in the year 1772, and prefented to 
-®- Dodtor Robert Ramsay, Profeflor of Natural Hiftory in 
Udinburghy for the ufe of the clafs over which he prefided. He 
printed one impreflion in the following year $ and then refigned 
to me the copy. 
Death deprived the community of a worthy member, in the 
lofs of my friend, on December 15th, 1778. I fuffer the Dedica- 
tion to remain in this edition, as a fmall monument to his me- 
mory ; and of the efteem in which I held a gentleman, ever adtive 
in all good offices to 
Downing, 
Dec. 20th, 1780. 
THOMAS PENNANT. 
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