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PREFACE OR NO PREFACE.--No preface can be to the Scraps of Nature, for God gave none when He formed creation, nor was there ever a book sent into the world like the volume of Nature, since the creation of the world, nor ever so bold an undertaking. It has never been seen by any eye, nor corrected by any hand, but the eye and hand of the writer. No volume has more humour,
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but, had not the authoress told us what it was, it might be taken for a mole or a wart. As the face is perfectly cheerful, and the
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Compliment to the Engraver,