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and natural historian. Mr. Mark Catcs])y, an 

 English naturalist, came to South Carolina in the 

 year 17!32, and resided four years in the colony, 

 where he did much for promoting the knowledge 

 of botany and zoology*. To these may be added 

 the rev. Isaac Chanler, the rev. Alexander Gar- 

 den, the rev. Henry Haywood, and the rev. Ri- 

 chard Clarke, all from England, who settled in 

 Carolina as clergymen, and became conspicuous 

 not only by their learning and talents, but also 

 by means of various publications of more or less 

 value, M'hich yet remain to attest the reality of 

 botht- 



* Mark Catesby, F. R. S., was born in England in the year 

 1679. He had an early and strong propensity to the study of 

 natural history; and having some relations in Virginia, he deter- 

 mined to gratify his taste for inquiries of this nature, by ex- 

 ploring a part of the new world. He therefore went to that co- 

 lony in 1712, where he staid seven years, admiring and collecting 

 the productions of the country. During this period he made nu- 

 merous botanical communications to his friends in Great Britain. 

 He returned to England in 1719; but soon afterward, encou- 

 raged by sir Hans Sloane, Dr. Sherard, and some other natura- 

 lists, he determined to make another visit to America, and ac- 

 cordingly embarked for South Carolina, where he arrived in ^lay 

 1722. He now remained four years in the country, exploring 

 Carolina, Georgia, the Floridas, and the Bahama islands. Return- 

 ing to England in 1726, he employed himself for a number of 

 years in preparing for publication his great work, entitled The 

 Natural Histoty of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. 

 The firsj: part of this work appeared in 1730, and it was com- 

 pleted in 17 -IS, in two volumes folio. He died in London in 

 1749. Gronovius, of Leyden, called a shrub of the tetramlrous 

 class Catesbea, after him. 



t The rev. Isaac Chanler was born at Bristol in 1701, and 

 emigrated to South Carolina in 1733. He settled, as pastor of 

 a baptist church, on A-ihly River, in 173u, where he continued 



