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Ir may be proper here to apologize for many of the ſubſequent conje&ures on ſome articles of na- tural philoſophy, as not being ſupported by accu- rate inveſtigation or concluſive experiments: Ex travagant theories however in thoſe parts of phi- loſophy, where our knowledge is yet imperfed, are not without their uſe; as they encourage the execution of laborious experiments, or the inveſ- tigation of ingenious deductions, to confirm or re- fute them. And fince natural objedts are allied to each other by many afhinities, every kind of theoretic diſtribution of them adds to our know- ledge by developing ſome of their analogies.

The Roficruſian do&rine of Gnomes, Sylphs, Nymphs, and Salamanders, was thought to afford a proper machinery for a Botanic POCIN+ as 1€ 1S probable, that they were originally the names of hieroglyphic figures repreſenting the elements.

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