AN

ESSAY

ON THE

PHILOSOPHY, &c.

OF

NATURAL HISTORY.

HI MAHU VAM

J. MOYES, PRINTER, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, London.

D.

AN

ESSAY

ON THE

PHILOSOPHY,

STUDY, AND USE

OF

NATURAL HISTORY.

BY

CHARLES FOTHERGILL.

"Happy the man, who, studying Nature's laws,
Through known effects can trace the secret cause."

DRYDEN'S Virgil.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WHITE, COCHRANE, AND CO.

FLEET STREET.

1813.