Gex* c Dr. Goonenoucx’s Obfervaiions 
probability, will yield an early foliage, and ‘in times-of drought a 
fure one. There may be countries where this circumftance may 
be worthy of confideration: the large coarfer forts might be 
Worked up in all countries, with other materials, for thatching, and 
for the coarfer purpoles of covering and protecting againft wea- 
ther. All thofe Carices which have creeping roots, are admirably 
well qualified to give ftability and firmnefs to the furface of quak- 
ing bogs. Many of this fort alfo grow by the fides of ditches and 
rivers, and occafion a tenacity in the banks, fo that they can re- 
fift the violence of currents. Cattle are not fond of thefe; perhaps 
fortunately fo, that man may more furely, as Linnæus has remark- 
E receive benefit from their growth in places of this nature. 
I do myfelf the honour of laying thefe, Sec Rene before tbe 
Linnean Society, anxious to facilitate the knowledge of this difficult 
genus; hoping atthe fame time that others wil] improve upon, 
them, and at length conftruét characters more diftinétive than 
mine. They are the obfervations of folitary walks, and of hours 
which, through the prevalence of modern fafhion, feem as it were 
privileged to be {pent in nothingneís.. But the contemplative phi- 
lofopher, even in thefe, finds the moft folid delight in dwelling — 
upon the works of the Almighty; and while he views ‘ the things . 
that are made," he confirms himfelf (and it 1s the true end of the 
ftudy of nature) in the belief “ of his eternal power and godhead,” 
and of the revelation (for it is a natural deduétion) which he hath 
pen of his will, 
Obférvation 1. Having, for brevity's fake, xatzoduced a new 
term— Wa agna —into many of my defcriptions, E beg to define it 
thus: À 
di. Vagina di bafis Frene PO 
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