With many other Obfervations on

NATURE and ART;

Particularly, An Introduction to

The Art of Decyphering.

Eleven Letters from the Revd Mr. SMITH,
sometime Rector of St. John's at NEVIS, and
now Rector of St. Mary's in BEDFORD; to the
Revd Mr. MASON, B. D. Woodwardian
Profeffor, and Fellow of Trinity - College, in
Cambridge.

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NEVIS,

MOTHER of the

English Leeward Charibee Iflands in America.

I

SIRS,

Often reflect with fingular Pleasure, upon the five happy Years that I was Rector of St. John's Parifh in your Country, and do with the utmost Gratitude acknowledge the Favours I received from You all.

I then kept a Book of Remarks upon what I faw moft obfervable in your Climate, and collected many beautiful Sea-Shells, which about nine years after