The PREFACE. vn 



In my Botanic fearches, I met with fome curious plants on 

 our northern Alps, acknowledged by the indefatigable and ac- 

 curate Dillenius not to have been feen by him any where in 

 England. Of thefe, and other curious and ufeful plants, I 

 have given fhort deferiptions, and have added the Synonyms of 

 the moft eminent and ingenious authors. Thofe that would 

 choofe to fee them under a iyftematic diftribution, I refer them 

 to the elegant fyftems of Holler (a), and Pan Royen (bj, and 



of the celebrated Linn<zus. 



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I have aifo given Short defcripdons and fynonyms of the moft '|V 



curious Birds obferved with us, and of the InfeEls^ &c. with 

 no other embellishments than thofe of nature and truth, 



Antiquities had a fhare of my attention at the lame time. 

 The works of the Britijh Druids, their ceSpititious and rocky 

 thrones, temples, and fepultures, attracted my observation ; their 

 rude grandeur gready raifing my curioSity. 



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Northumberland being Roman ground, and receiving my Sirft 

 breath in one of their Caftra (cj t 1 was led by a fort of enthu- 

 (iafm to an enquiry and fearch after their towns, their cities, and 



(a) Alb. Halleri enutneratio ftirpium indigenarum Helvetia, 9 vol. 

 foL Fig. elegantifs. Getting. 1742. 



(1>) Adrianivan Royen floras Leidenjii prodrornus, 8vo. Lugd. Bat. 1 740. 



(c) Alione y or Wbitky-Cajlle. 



temples, 



