INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



the textile plants, which yield materials which are employed in 

 making fabrics, such as the flax, hemp, and cotton. We 

 should never finish enumerating everything that man obtains 

 from the vegetable world, beverages, oils, woods, dyes, and 

 a great number of different substances, as will be seen when 

 we proceed to the history of animals and plants, after having 

 spoken of man. 



