Castelli, Benedetto, Of the mensuration of running waters, 1661

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              York
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              and
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              Salisbury,
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              &c: Our Ports are choaked and obſtructed
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              by Shelfes and Setlements: Our Fenns do in a great part lie waſte
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              and unimproved: Now all theſe may be (and, as I find by the
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              Confeſſion of ſome whoſe Practiſes upon the Copy of the Firſt
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              Book onely of our Authour hath got them both Money and Repu­
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              tation, in part have been) remedied by the Ways and Means he
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              here ſets down. </s>
              <s>The truth is the Argument hath been paſt over
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              with an Vniverſal Silence; ſo that to this day I have not ſeen
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              any thing that hath been written Demonſtratively and with Ma­
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              thematical Certainty concerning the ſame, ſave onely what this
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              Learned Prelate hath delivered of his Own Invention in theſe
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              Treatiſes: who yet hath ſo fully and plainly handled the Whole
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              Doctrine, that I may affirm his Work to be every way abſolute. </s>
              <s>It
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              muſt be confeſt the Demonſtration of the Second Propoſition of the
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              Second Book did not well pleaſe the Authour, and had he lived
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              he would have ſupplyed that defect, but being prevented by
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              Death, the Reader muſt content himſelf with the Mechanical
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              Proof that he giveth you of the truth of ſo Excellent a Con­
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              cluſion.
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              <s>§.
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              The other particular that I am to offer is, that out of my de­
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              ſire to contribute what lyeth in me to the compleating of this Piece
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              for Engliſh Practice, I have exeeded my promiſe not onely in gi­
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              ving you the Second and following Books which were not extant at
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              the time of tendring my Overtures, but alſo in that I have added
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              a Map or Plat of all the Rivers, Lakes, Fenns, &c. </s>
              <s>mentioned
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              thorow out the Work. </s>
              <s>And if I have not kept touch in point of
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              Time, let it be conſidered that I am the Tranſlator and not the
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              Printer. </s>
              <s>To conclude, according to your acceptance of theſe my
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              endeavours, you may expect ſome other Tracts of no leſſe Profit
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              and Delight.
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              Farewell.</s>
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              T. S.
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