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THE
PREFACE.
IT is difficult in the Purſuit of Learning, and remarkably ſo in the ſtudy of Nature, to confine our Searches to a particular Subject. Hence Treatiſes en the Works of Providence are often defective and ſuperficial. The Mind, amidſt ſuch a Scene of Wonders, is loſt in Aſtonifhment, and therefore can ſeldom fix its Enquiries, Thus in a Collection of Pictures, or Muſcum of Ra-rities,
