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had no leisure to add, but have referred that back to Mr. 

 Robinson, who I hope will perform it well. A catalogue 

 of more rare Oriental plants, growing in those parts where 

 Rauwolff travelled, I have drawn up, to be added to the 

 end of the work, referring such as are found therein to 

 the page where they are mentioned or described. 



I have formerly drawn up and published a Catalogue 

 of such plants, not native of England as I myself found 

 growing spontaneously in my travels beyond sea, to 

 which I have added what escaped my notice, out of 

 Mangol's Catalogue and Appendix of Montpellier plants, 

 M. Hofman's Cat. of Alterfine, C. Bauhine's, of Ba- 

 silian, -!oni incline's Holland Catal., P. Beccone's Si- 

 cilian Plants; moreover, all Clusius's Pannonic plants, 

 and all the Helvetic and Rhaetic, besides, mentioned and 

 described in C. Bauhine's 'Prodromus.' These are all 

 put in one alphabetic catalogue, wherein I have still room 

 left to receive what you shall please to contribute, or pro- 

 cure from Mr. Sherard : for this book will not be printed 

 before September next, my bookseller having his hands 

 so full that he cannot attend it. 



The work you mention of Martin's, &c., must needs 

 be a curious piece, if well done, and deserves to be trans- 

 lated and published. If well done, I say ; for if Martin 

 did not take notes from the plants and animals lying 

 before him, but dictated to Eogelius from his memory, 

 his descriptions cannot be exact. 



The two trees you mention from the Cape of Good 

 Hope are very curious, singular, and extraordinary. 



I am sorry my book wanted the advantage your me- 

 moirs and figures would have given it, in reference to 

 the earthquake at Jamaica. But my description and 

 notes concerning it were huddled up in haste (the press 

 stopping all that while), and sent up to London in loose 

 papers, as you may perceive by the confusedness of them ; 

 and truly you did not then come into my mind, else 1 

 should have made 1 them stay a little longer, till I had 

 written to you concerning it. 



