BOTANIC 

 i GARDE 



INTRODUCTION 



" With emblematick skill and mystick order. 

 Thou shew'dst where tow'rs on battlements should rise. 

 Where gates should open, or where walls should compass." 



Prior. 



That hierog-l\"phics tormed the earliest kind 

 of ^vi'itten language cannot be disputed, since 

 reason pronounces pictorial emblems the most 

 natural mode by which a communication of 

 ideas could be effected pre^~ious to the inven- 

 tion of a more regular system. 



The monuments of the greatest antiquity 

 confirm this opinion, and the most ancient 

 rocks of Egypt make knowm the early con- 

 quests of these people which are expressed 



