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TO THE STUDIOUS

ADOLESCENTS IN THE SCHOOL

OF LAUSANNE, GREETINGS.

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A decorative drop cap "E".IT is established in the custom and practice of this Academy, studious adolescents, that those authors are lectured upon for you at fixed times—both in the more refined liberal arts and humanities, and in the mathematical disciplines, and especially in the rudiments of cosmography—who are especially suitable and appropriate for quickly completing the curriculum of your studies.

However, while I was searching in recent days for whom I should choose above all others, many indeed occurred to me whose singular skill has left us so many and such excellent monuments of this doctrine that nothing more accurate can be required of them. Yet, in this abundance of most learned writers,