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Leave to preent, to this Volume of, being a Collection of everal Tracts lately read before the , whoe Meetings You have o frequently honour'd with Your Preence. Arts and Sciences always flourih mot under the Protection of Princes and Great Men, who, themelves engaging in the Search after Learning, do by their Examples excite an Emulation among thoe, whoe Buines and Profeion call them more immediately to the Improvement of the everal Branches thereof. I am peruaded thee Papers will meet with a fa-