PREFACE* 
Vll 
none bat those who had been acquaint¬ 
ed only with the typography of the 
thirteenth or fourteenth century would 
thi nk this performance worth look¬ 
ing at. I therefore sat about re-mo- 
o 
delling and improving the whole, and 
had just finished, and moreover Com¬ 
piled a Second Edition of a Work on 
the “Natural History and Manage¬ 
ment of Bees/ 3 much enlarged, cor¬ 
rected, and improved, (jiuuc ante lee* 
tor—volo faisse melius 5 ) when I was 
called on to leave home, and exchange 
the Printing Office for the Counting 
House. And so, at that time, ended 
the matter. 
R.R. 
EDINBURGH, September,- 
MDCCCXXXI. 
