PREFACE. 



every affiftance that ingenuity and friendfhip 

 could yield. This young gentleman, a moft 

 accurate obferver of Nature's works,, and 

 critically vers'd in the 'Er^fe language, and 

 the manners and cuftoms of his country, I 

 had the good-fortune to fliare as a compa- 

 nion and fellow-traveller through the High- 

 lands and Hebrides ; and to him I am obliged 

 for a great portion of the HighlaJid botany, 

 for many of the medical and ceconomicah and 

 all the fuperfiitious ufes of plants which are 

 interfperfed in this work, and to him I owe 

 the fupply of their Rrfe or Gaulic names. 



To the Rev. Dr. Burgefs of Kirhnkhaeh 

 in Dumfriesp^ire, I am eminently indebted 

 for the botany <di the Lowlands, Unfolicited 

 and without referve, he was ready to impart 

 all the botanical difcoveries he had made 

 during the courfe of many years. To hini 

 I am likewife obliged for the provincial 

 names of plants, or thofe made ufe of by 

 the common people of the country. 



To thefe afliftances from gentlemen con- 

 ilantly refident in Scotla-nd, I mufl add the 

 friendly aids I have received from thofe who, 



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