“The PREFACE. | 
America, where he fhould arrive, employ d Dr. Barwick, who was bis 
Phyfician, to look out for one who could take care of Him and bis 
Family in cafe of Sicknefs.; Dr Barwick fpake to me in this matter, 
enquiring if any Phyfician of my Acquaintance would undertake it. 
This. feem'd to me to be. Juch au Opportunity as I my self wanted, 
to view the Placeg.and Things 1. defign'd, .and at the fame time to 
profecyte the. Prattice of Phyfic; wherefore I defir'd he would give me 
time to think of it, and after due confideration I refolv'd to go, provided 
fome Preliminaries and Conditions were agreed to, which were all granted. 
5 nth intended jh [oon as Ov board to have made fereral Experiments and 
Objer vations ia the Voyage, byt was prevented bya very lang and tedious 
SeaaSteknels,; yalels im fome particulars; of which Lbave given an Acconnt 
in, the enfuing Voyage. Elis. Grace the Duke of Albemarl’s Conunn fior 
and Tuftructions requiring he fhould mujfter all the Forces. of, the Englifh- 
CaribecIflands, im bis way to Jamaica, made him ftop fome days af,maft 
of thems, which gave, me an opportunity of {pending fome time in logking 
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after the Curinpsties of thofe Places, why are taken Notice of in the 
Voyage thither, I have left out moft of whatever is.velated by any: Author 
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L bad perufed salels what they mention of the Ufes of Plants, or fuch 
particulars wherein I thought, they, were miftaken. ,.. : 
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Upon my Arrival in, Jamaica, f took whit pains I could’ a¢ Wife 
Flours from the Bufine/s of my Profeffion, to fearch the feveral Places T 
could think afforded Natural Produétions, and immediately defcribed them 
‘in a Fournal, meafuring their feveral Parts by my Thumb, which, with 
4 little allowance, I reckoned an Inch. “EF thought it needle/s. to be’ more 
exaéE,  becaufe’ the Leaves of Vegetables of the fame forts, Wings of 
‘Birds, &c. do vary more from one, another, | than that does from the exact 
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| feribe: There are fo many Varieties of them, that they require new Naihes 
to expres them. I obferved in defcribing of them, that the Leaves of moft, 
if not all, Plants are Greenelt ‘on their uppermoft fides, ‘or that eXpofed to 
the Sun-Beams; and Lighter and more Whitifh undericath. This is vine 
only fo inJ amaica, but in all places where I have Been; when the Leaves 
or Tops of Plants have not been expofed to the Light “anid Suns ‘they are 
not only whiter, but tenderer, and often digeftible by our Stomachs, ‘This 
appears by the Tops of the Palm [in Jamaica and the Weft-Indies ] 
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