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fubmit a Plan, that would not, I flatter myfelf, 
be totally imperfedt. But I have dwelt long 
enough on this Subjedt for the prefent, and 
now proceed to gratify the Curiofiiy of my 
Readers, by faying fomething of the following 
Pages. 
.The Purchafers of this little Work muft not 
expedt too much, it not being meant to give a 
particular Account of all the Contents of this 
noble Cabinet: That is referved for other Pens, 
being, as I am informed, to be published by 
the Officers of the Houfe at a proper Time, 
and will confift: of many Volumes in Folio, 
What I here prefent to the Public, are only a 
few Remarks on the general Contents, without 
enlarging too much on any Thing. A Regu¬ 
larity of Method is obferved; for my Reader 
will find himfelf accompanied through all the 
Rooms in the fame Order they are fiiewn: 
The general Heads are given j and he is di- 
redied in his Choice of a few Objedts molt 
worthy Remark under each Title: So that, 
upon the whole, I can offer it as a kind of Di¬ 
rectory to thofe who are inclined to fee the 
Mufeum ; it will likewife ferve to give a toler¬ 
able Idea of the Contents to thofe who have no 
Opportunity of feeing it, and to refrefh the 
Memory, where perhaps it hath been viewed 
in a curfory Manner. 
Among the Numbers whom Curiofity 
prompted to get a Sight of this Colledlion, I 
was of courfe one j but the Time allowed to 
view 
