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quences that often attend "cm, had generally rendered them the principal 

 objects of my Study : frequent opportunities gave me an occafion 

 enquiring more fir icily into their Courfes and Caufes\ and the neglect 

 or inaccuracy of former Writers ; the confufed and imperfect Notions 

 generally received of the mofl dangerous and deflructive of them \ and tin 

 pernicious Methods of practice, now, too frequently pi ufe among the ge- 

 nerality of our American practitioners, e7igaged ?7ie to communicate 

 my Obfervations ; which I have difpofed in a few Dijfertations, to avoid 

 prolixity, or too freque?it repetitions. 



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he Diver Jity of Subjects treated of in the courfe of this wor 



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fubjetled it to a great nwnber of Parts and Subdivifions ; The fir ft 

 of thefe gives an account of the Civil State of the IJland ; and for 



greater conveniency is divided into two Parts or Chapters : 



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Firft 



contains a brief Hiflory of the former Jlate of that place, continued 



own to 



thorough Eft abliftdment of the Colony ; an 



Second 



includes its prefent State', with a more circumflantial Account of its 

 Trade, Imports, Exports, Revenues^ and Curiojities. 





The Second Part of the work is a regular Hiflory of the Natural 



mofl confiderable, .we have di- 



Productions ', a?id, as it is by far 



vided it into Three Booh ; and thefe again into Clajfes and Se&ions 

 according to the natural order of the Subject. The Firjl of thoje (be- 

 jide a Catalogue of the native Fojfils of Jamaica, with fome Remarks 



on many of the Particulars) contains a New General Method of clafif- 

 ing native Fofjils* In the Second Book, we give an account of the ve- 

 getable productions of that Ifland, which we have difpofed chiefly ac- 

 cording to the Syflem of Linneus ; and have added the Ufes and Pro- 

 perties of each, as far as they have been yet afcer tabled ; as well as 



the Methods of Cultivating, and Manufacturing fuch as we have ob 



ferved to furnijh any valuable or ufeful commodity. The Third con- 

 tains an account of the Animals chiefly obferved in and about the 



Ifland \ and thefe are clajfed nearly according to the Syflem of Linneus 





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but where that feemed forced or unnatural, we have followed 

 method^ in which we have endeavoured to be guided folely by 





natural appearances 







The Third Part of the work is made up of a few Differ % tat ions, con 

 tabling fome ufeful remarks and obfervations on the Nature of Climate 

 general ; the Diver fity of Atmofpheres ; and the different Difpofition 



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of the human machine in each 



fing peculiarly from them, iri every age 



ticularly, of the yellow and remittent Fevers 



of the Diforders 



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