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MY LORD,

I Have adventured on your Lordships ac­cep­tance by guess; if pre­sump­tion has led me into an Error that deserves cor­rec­tion, I heart­i­ly beg In­demp­ni­ty, and resolve to repent soundly for it, and do so no more. What I present I know to be true, Experientia docet; It being an infallible Maxim, That there is no Globe like the occular and experimental view of a Countrey. And had not Fate by a necessary imployment, consin’d me within the narrow walks of a four years Servitude, and by degrees led me through the most intricate and dubious paths of this Countrey, by a commanding and undeniable Enjoyment, I could not, nor should I ever have undertaken to have written a line of this nature.