The Author to the Reader. xxi 
Créatures, | the Author will ‘freely! 
aéknowledge any Pains employed in 
the: Compofure ‘amply and: abun- 
dantly recompented. ee 
YeTt is’ not material, neither would 
it! be of Service to felt! the World, 
what led me at firft into fuch an Ac- 
‘quaintance;*( though ‘very remarka- 
ble) with thefe little Creatures, whofe 
‘wonderful Parts and» Properties: are 
fo many evident Proofs of the in- 
finite Power and Wifdom of the 
‘Creator! 
They hhave ever fince beer’ an 
apse Amufement to me, and 
the’ delightful Employment of my 
‘eifure Hours. 
“But as I: never was seAtaoti of 
Bide? an Author, chufing rather a 
‘filent Paffage through the World ; 
‘no *Sollicitations’ or ‘Importunities 
‘e@ould- have induced’ mé, had not 
- Faftice to the Publick, witli Tender- 
onefs and cage to thefe excellent and 
hog yo frofitable 
