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The: Iutroduétion to the Second Volume: 
their Countrymen arrive, there:are very great and .un- 
common Civilities fhewn to Strangers by all forts of Peo- 
ple in their feveral Stations. Arriving firft at Barhados, 
perhaps that kind -of--wnufual civil ‘Treatment, » efpecially. 
by fome of my old Acquaintance might influence and make 
a greater Impreflion upon me then the fame, or perhaps 
greater kindneffes fhewn me in Sfamaica, sehése Was ina 
manner at home. id anos 
It hath been faid, that I have defcribed and figured Things 
already done better by Dr. Plukenét, and others, I wilkonly 
mention ‘two,.-or three Paflages. Dr. Plukenet one Day:;we 
met, ask’d,) what Fruit the Ebony of Sfamaica bore, Ltold. 
him it,bore a fort of Pod. like the Afpalathi, to the Wood 
of; which it was of kin,, being very hard.and ponderous. 
He adapted this Fruit ina Book he printed to, a Shrub 
which grew at .Chelfea, and refembled»it-in its Leaves, 
without mentioning-my.Name. At laft the Flower and 
Berry appear’d, on that at Chelfea; ‘when not only he, when 
he daw his Miftake, but many -others_ believed that I had 
impofed on him, till what I told him appeared by my 
Catalogue, and now by this fecond Volume, p. 31. to be 
true.-» He pretends to find fault with my making ufe. of 
his Synonimous Names,. whereas he antedated. fome of the 
Books, of his, Phytographia, ( See p. 130 of this Volume ) 
four Years, publifh’d them without being perfeét, there want- 
ing: feveral Lables afterwards engraved, and taking a 
Lemma to his Book, Vires dedit Sie virtus, acl. it 
believe he meant, that I being about to publifh my Ob. 
fervations, he made hafte to come out before with. his. 
When I,firft return’d from Samaica, I brought with me 
a Collection of dried Samples of fome very ftrange Plants, 
which excited the Curiofity of People who loved Things of 
that Nature to fee them, and who. were welcome, ’till I ob- 
ferv’d fome fo very curious, as to defire to carry part of them 
home with them privately, and injure what they left. This 
made 
