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fudgment your Lordship has given of it, and which I cculd\never hale had the Confidence to hope for, had I not relied on,that incredible ToWer which your Lordship's Care and ConduBhas to ma\e every Thing succeed you undertake ; The B 00which I now take the Freedom to present your Lordships having-the same Advantage^ in the good Fortune, thai its Design, asbold and extraordinary as it is, has reecho d your lordship'sApprobation, I expos ? it to the World with the same Confidence.As this is a fort of Supplement to what was not particularlyenough treated of by Vitruvius, sis probable those who arecurious in the noble Art that Author has taught us, may bepleas’d with the Jfovelties this Boo^ contains ; and that suchas please to put its Rules in TraBice, willfind them of confixderable Vse in making those Things eajie and delightful that arewont to give the greatest Trouble . For fully to answer the In-

tentions your Lordship has, to furnish the Lovers of ArchilteBure, with all possible Means that may render them accom-plish d, and make them capable of contributing, by eternal Mo-numents, to the Cjlory of our invincible Monarch , it was notenough to have drawn so many Rarities, contain d in the excel -lent Books of Vitruvius, out of almost an impenetrable Ob-scurity, to have explain d, from this Author, with greaterClearness than formerly, the Trinciples and Trecepts of theArt of Building, and the Tarticulars of those Ancient Wondersof the World that he has deferib d to us : but it was fartherrequisite to clear that Confuston and Disorder wherein the Mo-dern Authors have left the greatest part of what belongs to the

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