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Rh a more than ordinary Attention, a Knowledge of the Subject, and a continual Conultation of others of the Antients,

In uch Condition has this Treatie lain; full of excellent Matter, but rendered almot unintelligible: The Author is remarkable for uing very few Words; and where it was common to find ome of thoe few wanting, it eemed no eay Tak to undertand him. On this Occaion, as alo in regard to the Errors, o frequent and perplexing, I have been at the Pains of conulting the ret of the Antients; in order to find what it was mot likely he hould ay, by what they have aid on the ame Occaion: In thee Undertakings, Pliny alo, where he could be depended on, has been of ingular Service; a Paage from him, frequently a literal Tranlation of this Author, hewing ly