The Epistle Dedicatory about Things never so weighty and intricate must be allow'd some Minutes to unbend, I submissively beg You would please to bestow some of them upon this Treatise, well-knowing, if Your Lordship smile upon it, the World cannot dislike it.<br><br>The Europeans have such obscure and various Notions of Japan, and especially of our Island Formosa, that they can believe nothing for truth that has been said of it.