AN

ESSAY

ON THE

PHILOSOPHY, &c.

OF

NATURAL HISTORY.

AN

ESSAY

ON THE

PHILOSOPHY,

STUDY, AND USE

OF

NATURAL HISTORY.

BY

CHARLES FOTHERGILL.

“ Happy the man, who, studying Nature's laws,
Through known effects can trace the secret cause."

DRYDEN'S Virgil.

LONDON:

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