TRAVELLING, Sec. 15 



heads of mountains, the craggy precipices of 

 rocks, or the fun lying concealed from our 

 eyes for fo many months, and thence a thick 

 Cimmerian darknefs fpread over our hemi- 

 fphere, or elfe at another feafon darting his 

 rays continually along the horizon. The like 

 to all which in kind, and degree, neither Hol- 

 land, nor France, nor Britain, nor Germany, 

 nor lallly any countrey in Europe can fhew -, 

 yet thither our youth greedy of novelty flock 

 in troops. But it was not my intent to fpeak 

 of thefe things at prefent. I come now clofer 

 to my purpofe, being about to fhew by in- 

 fiances, that the natural philofopher, the mi- 

 neralogifl, the botanift, the zoologift, the phy- 

 fician, the farm^er, and all others, initiated in 

 any part of natural knowledge, may find in 

 trave Ring thro' our own countrey things, which 

 they will own they never dreamed of before. 

 Nay things which to this day were never dif- 

 covered by any perfon whatever. Laftly fuch 

 things, as m.ay not only gratify, and fatiate 

 their curiofity ; but may be of fervice to them- 

 felves, their countrey, and all the world. 



To give a few examples. The fagacious 

 fearcher afte.^ nature v/ill find here, wherewith- 

 all to fliarpen, and exerclfc his attention in be- 

 4 ^ holding 



