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find the Matter treated of in viewing the Collec¬ 
tion, and there make his own Obfervations on the 
Nature and Properties of it; and if he has not 
that Opportunity, hy coniulting the Writers on 
Natural Hiftory, his Curiofity will perhaps in 
part be fatisfied. Had I not been flrongly 
urged to the Undertaking, and was I not fully 
fenfible that fomething of the kind is much 
wanting, this Trifle had never been published : 
If it is ufeful, I am fatisfied : It is a Vanity for 
any one to think of meeting with univerfal 
Approbation. The judicious Reader will ob- 
ferve, that I have endeavoured to be as intelli¬ 
gible as poffible; making ufe of very few 
Words but what are generally underflood : I 
therefore flatter myfelf, that my Readers among 
the Ladies will be very numerous; many of 
them having, in my Company, lamented the 
want of fomething of this kind, to diredt their 
Obfervations, and give them a general Idea of 
the Contents of this wonderful Colledtion. 
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