PREFACE 
TO THE 
SECOJVE EJBITIOJV' 
As a reference to the former Edition ot this Work is fre¬ 
quently made in a Work entitled Ornamental Groups, lately pub¬ 
lished; and as the attention of the possessors of that Work 
may be directed to this Essay, the Author thinks it would be 
treating the Public with disrespect, to refer them to a Work 
that might be in any respect rendered more perfect: She has, 
therefore, studiously attended to the different ciitisisms passed 
upon the former Edition, both by indifferent people, and also 
by her particular Friends. The principle upon which the theory 
is founded has been approved of; but previous to its being now a 
second time presented to public notice, it has undergone a 
careful revisal as to style ; some parts that were thought obscure 
