THE EDITOR thinks it a duty incumbent to return his most fincere thanks to those Subfcribers who so cheerfully have promoted the following little Work. With as much caution as poffible, he has kept his original Plan in view, to select fuch pieces as might blend instruction with amufe ment, and while the fancy is entertained, the mind may be 6 ८ improved. Several things will be found replete with much merit, though not universally known, or rendered extremely popular; for 'Many a flower is born to spread unfeen, and waste its sweet' ness on the defart air.' If, in the present, the reader meets with fomething to approve, and nothing to offend, 'tis all the praise he can take to himself; for to use the words of a celebrated Author, and diftinguished EditorI have here only made a |