PREFACE. 



and happy ingenuity, may vie with the befl 

 compofitions. 



Yet, as that great naturalift has, in the 

 fame trad:, publifhed an eulogiura on Sweden ; 

 and as an incitement to his countrymen to 

 apply themfelves to the ftudy of nature, 

 enumerated the natural produdions of that 

 kingdom ; we fhall here attempt a parallel, 

 and point out to the Britijh reader, his na- 

 tive riches ; many of which were probably 

 unknown to him, or perhaps (lightly regarded. 



Do the heights of Torjburgy or Swucku, 

 afford more inilruclion to the naturalift than 

 the mountains oi Cumberland ^ or Caernarvon- 

 fldire ? whofc fides are covered with a rich 

 variety of uncommon vegetables, while their 

 bowels are replete with the moft ufeful mi- 

 nerals. The Derbyffjtre hills, abounding in 

 all the magnificence of caves and cliffs ; the 

 mountains oi Kerry, and that furprizing har- 

 bour the Bullers of Buchan '^, may well be 

 oppofed to the rocks of Blackiilla, or the ca- 

 verns of Skiula, Sweden can no where pro- 

 duce a parallel to that happy combination 

 of grandeur and beauty in Kefwick^ vale, or 



* Between Aberdeen and Peterhead, 

 t In Cumberland, 



a 3 Killarny 



