D ED ICATI 0 N. 
Recommendation of them, and 
more particularly as they had the 
Honour of your Perufal and Cor¬ 
rection in Manufcript. The Sub¬ 
ject indeed is fmall, but not in¬ 
glorious. The Ant, as the Prince 
of Wifdom is pleafed to inform 
us, is exceeding wife. In this 
Light it may, without Vanity, 
boaft of its being related to you, 
and therefore by right of Kindred 
merits your Protection. How juft 
the Obfervation of Solomon was, 
this fhort Series of Experiments 
may in fome Meafure illuftrate ■; 
and how juft the Comparifon is, 
the World well knows. Your 
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