Excerpt from The Wonders of the World, in Nature, Art, and Mind: Comprising a Complete Library of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge; Illustrated With Several Hundred Engravings; Consisting of Views of Cities, Celebrated Edifices, and Other Great Works of Architecture, Monuments, Mechanical Inventions, Ruins The Eqnnybeipliflbeautiful Engravings with which: -adorned will be a great re commendation of it, as young Psoras, more espe cially, are delighted with things of this nature, and thereby induced to read. They not only em bellish and ornament the book, but convey a live lier and more correct idea Of many of the Objects mentioned than could be given by any verbal de scription.

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