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THE

NEW-YORK MAGAZINE;

OR,

LITERARY REPOSITORY.

VOLUME II.-1791.

ALL HAIL, BLEST SCIENCE!-O'ER OUR NATIVE LAND,
WITH GOD-LIKE WISDOM, WIDE THY WINGS EXPAND.

BIBI

NEW YORK:

Printed and fold by THOMAS and JAMES SWORDS, at their Office,
No. 27, William-Street,

-1791-

PREFACE,

IN N completing the fecond volume of the NewYork Magazine, or Literary Repofitory, the Publishers are called upon for a PREFATORY ADDRESS to accompany it; and not to disappoint the expectations of their readers, they here present what the peculiar circumftances of the work have dictated,

AND firft, they think it their duty to return their hearty thanks to their worthy friends and patrons who have evinced a difpofition to fupport the publication, by giving it their countenance and encouragement. To their literary friends they are no lefs grateful; and while they refpectfully folicit the honour of future favours, and the further patronage of their friends and the friends of fcience, they affure them that nothing on their part fhall be wanting to render the publication worthy their particular notice.

WITH refpect to the prefent volume, the Editors are confident that they have exerted themselves to perform their duty in fuch a manner as would be both pleafing and fatiffactory. They are pleased to find they have been in part fuccefsful, and that the greater part of the fubfcribers to this work have expreffed their approbation of the manner in which it has been conducted. With diffidence, however, the work is fubmitted; and to the reader who hath not perused it in its monthly course, it will only be neceffary to fay, that every exertion has been made to render it an entertaining Magazine and a copious Repofitory of useful and interefting matter.

Ir is a fact well known, that the Publifhers could employ their prefs to much more advantage than in a work of this nature, at leaft in the present ftate of pecuniary emoluments; but, having once made the experiment, they were loth to relinquish it-convinced, that perfeverance

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