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 better apprehensions; putting leaden heels upon the feet of your Adversaries; Moreover it will either prevent their future heats; Or if it cools not their Courage, it will lessen their Auxiliaries; So that I am in some sort glad of your suffering, as rendering you more known, which is your certain advantage, and refin'd likewise from the dross of those diverting Employments, making you more in love with your first more pleasing and useful designments; and though you are in no business Excentrick, yet no man is said properly to move in his own sphere, but where he moves with self-contentation. I may adde that this occasion will give the world a glimpse at least of the vastness of your work of survey, whereof they are now wholly ignorant, looking upon it perhaps as the same, with our trifling and careless Surveys in England; it will likewise beget a longing in the Learned, after your Geographical description of Ireland. I see not any discouragement in your way; Especially, If dealing with two or a few more of the wasps, you draw not the whole Nest about your ears. You may please then upon a review, to advert what