PR E FACE. 



future generations; without which all the scien- 

 tific records imaginable would be to them only 

 as cyphers scrawled on the barrenness of in- 

 tellect. 



Two large impressions of this work having 

 been sold, the Author has yielded to the solici- 

 tations of his friends in preparing for the press 

 a THIRD, in which he has added a considerable 

 number of new observations, and has appended 

 a Journal of Natural History, in order that the 

 reader, by comparing the Calendar of Flora, 

 &c. with the weather, may arrive to a more 

 perfect notion of the particular climate of this 

 part of Britain. 







