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Excerpt from A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature: Endeavouring to Set Forth the Several Gradations Remarkable in the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Parts of the Creation
I am proud to own in this Place, that it was Mr. Adds/bu who firll gave me this curious Thought, and lead me to the Compolition of the following Treanfe, which, however I have been fortunate 1n putting together, I can venture to af firm it confills of Truth (0 far as I have mention'd any thing upon my own Knowledge. But as the World; in Cafes of this Nature, is commonly jealous of the Paas related, I have here given my Reader an Opportunity of furveying the (eve ral Curiolities I have mention'd, by dire�ting him to thole Cabinets where each refpe�tive Subje�l is lodg'd.
It is notvto be expe�led, that in a Work of this {mall-vo lume, I can give a full Relation of the Exteriour and Interi our Parts of Bodies, nor can it be fuppofed that even it could contain the Names of every different Mineral, Plant, or Ani mal that 13 commonly known, for it is true (as Mr. Addijbn, oblitrves in the above-mention'd Paper) That a Natural Ri llory, after all the Difquifitions of the Learned, would. Be infinitely ibort and dele�tive. Seas and Defarts hide Mil lions of finimals from our Obfervation; innumerable Artifi ces and Stratagems are afied in the howling filderncfi, and in the great Deep, that can never come to our Knowledge.
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