O R, NATURE DISPLAY'D. BEING DISCOURSES On fuch PARTICULARS Of NATURAL HISTORY, As were thought most proper To EXCITE the CURIOSITY, AND FORM the MINDS of YOUTH. Illuftrated with Copper Plates. Tranflated from the Original FRENCH THE SEVENTH EDITION, LONDON, Printed for R. FRANCKLIN, C. DAVIS, S. BIRT, MDCCL. TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE Duke of Cumberland. SIR, TH HE univerfal Approbation which the feveral French Editions of this Volume have received, from Perfons of the finest Tafte, furnished me with an Inducement to lay the following Tranflation at Your Royal High nefs's Feet, A 2 The The amiable Qualities, with which Nature has enriched Your Royal Highness, have been so happily cultivated by the best of Educations, that I am perfuaded the wonderful Scenes of Providence, fo elegantly displayed in this Treatife, will not be confidered, by Your Royal Highness, as an unpleafing Entertainment, unless I have been fo unfortunate as to render it fuch, by a difagreeable Verfion. As the Mind of Your Royal Highness has been watered with the pureft Streams that Learning could difpenfe, and as you have long been habituated to those Inftitutions, which render a young Prince the Darling of thofe who have the Honour to approach him, there there is fufficient Reafon to believe, that any generous Attempt to promote useful Knowledge, and inspire the Sons of Men with Gratitude to their great Creator, will obtain a favourable Reception from Your Royal Highness, whofe Cabinet has ever been inacceffible to the low Singularities of Infidels and Sceptics. The Worthy Author of the following Converfation, has charmed fo many of the politeft Readers, with his engaging Display of Nature, that I was ambitious of employing my fmall Abilities, in transfufing his Sentiments into the English Language; and should Your Royal Highness condescend to think I have not been altogether unsuccessful in my Attempt, I A 3 fhall |