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HE Reader will meet in the Title-Page with an account of the Occaion that gave birth to the following Treatie. Thus much farther it may not be amis to take notice of that as it was written to be deliver'd by word of mouth only, the Writer thought it bet to put what he had to ay into a continued Dicoure, and not into the Form ued by Mathematicians; making it his Endeavour to find a way of Expreion as familiar and approaching to common Speech as he could conveniently; aiming throughout at Perpicuity rather than Concienes. This proving not unacceptable to ome Hearers; it was imagined that it might chance to fall in with the Tate of other perons.

It may not be unfit to Jay a few words here concerning the Manner, in which this Treatie is dipoed. And firt it be-