PREFACE,quiry into the State of Ancient Measures; which,if one confiders the Uniformity of the whole Design,Accuracy of the Calculations, Sagacity of the Con-jeBures, Skill in restoring and comparing Passagesof Ancient Authors, and the incomparable Learningthat shines through the whole, excells very far allthat was ever published upon the SubjeB\ and in-deed had my Design been merely the fame with thatof his Lordship, / should not have prefunid to havewrote any thing further on this matter . As myCalculations differ*d not in any considerable mattersfrom his Lordship's, I thought it was sufficientto take notice of those differences without chan-ging the Tables in any material Article. New Bookson useful Subjefts, if not erroneous, are so far advan-tageous to Learning, that being put as it were byaccident into a great many Hands, engage some tofludy a Matter which they would not otherwisehave thought of

I have been always of Opinion that young Gentle-men of an Age to consider more than the mereWords of an ancient Author, ought not only totake along with them the Chronology, Geography,and a clear Idea of the Antiquities formed by ocu-lar Inspection on Models and Figures ; but likewise

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