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otherwayes, will be unavoidable. It's a work of no small difficulty, to purchase a parcel of good Books, for publick advantage, nor is it less difficult to preserve and secure them for posterity, when they are purchased.
It would be of some advantage to this design, if you and some others of the Ministry, would write to some Ministers of the Presbyterian way, at London to move them to concurr in this Affair: And if to all this were added some endeavours in Scotland, to procure some Books, or Money to buy them, we might then hope to get Libraries erected in Each Presbytry-Seat of the Highlands, and perhaps for Ork-
