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The Second Preface.
than can ever be met with in my Defcription,
&c. of my Native Country Formofa,
But here I beg leave to give a very (hort
account of this Iccond Edition, and then I
(hall go on to Anfwer the Objeftions,
tho'
not methodically, according to the thread
of the Difcourfe, but as they have occafionally
come to my knowledge. The firO:
Edition of this Book vi^as, I confefs, imperfeft,
and wanted many curious and valuable
Things, which long thinking, and the
variety of queftions fince ask'd me, have at
laft brought frefti into my memory 3 the
Bookfellers found it
imprafticable to print
thefe new matters by way of Appendix,
and fo there w^as a neceflity to infcrt them
in their proper places in this fecond Edir
tion. Many improprieties, vain repetitions,
and indeed miftakesof one of the Tranflators
of the former Edition, are left out, or
corce&ed in this ^ and I muft acknowledge,
that the Gentleman who revised this, has
mended the Language, not err'd a tittle
from the Original, but to my great fatisfaftion
has fully exprefs'd my meaning, fo
that I can now fay with PiUte, What I have
vpritten^
I^ have vpritten.
But the Reader I believe will agree witl^
me. That it is more proper to anfwer the
Objeftions here, and reter to the page of
the Book to which they belong, than to put
tbem in rhe body of the Book, and fo be
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