SIR HANS SLOANE. 



TO HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 



THE KING; 



THIS SECOND VOLUME OF THE 



NATURAL HISTORY OF JAMAICA, 



ONE OP 



THE LARGEST AND MOST CONSIDERABLE 

 OF 



HIS MAJESTY'S PLANTATIONS' 



IN 



AMERICA, 



IS, WITH ALL HUMILITY DEDICATED, 



ASA TESTIMONY OF HIS DUTY AND GRATITUDE 



FOR THE MANY GREAT BLESSINGS 



WHICH HE WITH OTHERS ENJOY, 



UNDER HIS MAJESTY'S WISE GOVERNMENT 



AND POWERFUL PROTECTION ; 



AND FOR SEVERAL PARTICULAR INSTANCES 



OF HIS MAJESTY'S FAVOURS CONFERRED ON 



HIS MAJESTY'S MOST OBEDIENT, 



MOST DUTIFUL, 



AND MOST FAITHFUL 



SUBJECT AND SERVANT, 



HANS SLOANE. 



There is an introduction of eighteen pages in 

 vindication of those parts of the catalogue which 

 had been attacked by Plukenet* in his Mantissa. 



* Leonard Plukeriet was a celebrated botanist, who, 

 like his contemporaries Sloane and Petiver, practised 

 medicine, but whether as a physician or apothecary is not 

 known, but probably the latter ; at all events, he never 

 attained to any eminence in his profession, which appears 

 to have excited his jealousy against them, who were both 

 in high estimation and flourishing circumstances, particu- 

 larly as, according to Sir J. E. Smith's opinion, in 

 4otanical science he l< was apparently a man of more 

 solid learning than either of those distinguished writers; 

 and, having been less prosperous than either, he wad 



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