PREFACE. 



THE prefent publication appears with a view 

 to fupply the Englilh reader with a good 

 account of a country, which now enjoys the hap- 

 plnefs to be under the mild influence and fway of 

 the BritiHi fceptre ; and, if properly adminiftered 

 and peopled, might in time become one of the 

 great fupports of that power, which makes Great 

 Britain refpedled over all the globe. The coun- 

 try here defcribed is fufceptible of great' improve- 

 ments, capable to fupply the mother-country with 

 immenfe (lores of raw materials for her manufac- 

 tures, and to take in return the produ6ls of our 

 induPtry ; a commerce which, connected with re- 

 ligious and civil liberty, is the only.bafis on which 

 the grandeur of this nation can be laftingly found- 

 ed with any degree of probability. 



The Catalogue of North American plants is a 

 mere attempt, to make the curious more atten-. 

 tive to the American fpontaneous produ6ts, and 

 which will give a higher degree of certainty of fuc-? 

 ceis to the plantations of fuch plants as were re-» 

 commended to the public, by the ingenious and 

 great promoter of Natural Hillory and Plantations 

 Joh7i Ellis^ Efq-, in a Catalogue of fuch foreign plants 

 as arc vjorthy of being encouraged in our American 

 colonics for th: ptrpofes of medicine^ agriculture^ and 

 ccimncrce. 



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