xlv AUTHOR'S PREFACE, 

 nary bufmefs. Every one chofe fomething 

 adapted to his talte ; for my part I found no- 

 thing that could entertain more innocently 

 both myfelf during the voyage, and my frLnds 

 after my return, than natural hillory. 



The initruction I drew from the lectures 

 which I had attended in this fcience at Up fa I 9 

 obliged me to be grateful. I returned with- 

 out any money ; more of which I could have 

 employed during my voyage in the gratifica- 

 tion of my third after knowledge : for I knew 

 that to fo learned a man, as Linnaeus, I could 

 no how exprefs my obligations fo well as by 

 fpecimens of natural hillory. 



I kept for my own amufement a journal of 

 every thing worthy of obfervation during my 

 voyage; from this I gave him fome defcriptions 

 of new plants found in Spain, China, and 

 other places, which were immediately incor- 

 porated into that capital botanical book then 

 printing under the title of Species Plantunau, 

 and with which my names of plants agree c . 



c The author's animals are alfo admitted in o the 

 Naturte, edit. 12; and where Linn, thou I r 



to a:tcr the genus, his names are quoted as iyutn; 



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