SCENERY. AURORA BOREALIS. 



claffed, in his faving orders, his Grace with the moft faithful of animals ! The 

 duke Ihewed on this occafion his ufual intrepidity. A medal was ftruck of a fink- 

 ing fhip, with the motto, impavldum feriunt. The heroifm and loyalty of the 

 common men who were left behind, had the ftilleft clame to every honor. On 

 feeing their popular and beloved commander out of danger, they gave three loud 

 cheers, and on the third funk exulting to the bottom. 



xsr I propofe as examples of magnificent fcenery on the coaft of Scotland, Boddam 



caftle, Dunby head, and F'mlater caftle, in the Reverend Mr, Cordhm-'s Views in 

 North Britain : the Bullers of Buchan, and the arched rock near to them ; the per- 

 forated pyramid near Banff, and the infulated column ofF Caithnefs, in the fame gen- 

 tleman's Letters on the Scenery and Antiquities of the North of Scotland. 



sxviil. The great Gajfendus obferved the aurora horealis, in 1621, near to Jix, m 



Provence *. But they had been long before feen in Greenland, and well defcribed 

 by the author of the Speculum Regale ; of whom we know no more than that he was. 

 a perfon of diftin£lion in the Nonvegian court, about the latter end of the thir- 

 teenth, or beginning of the fourteenth century, and refided as far north as 

 Helgeland, 



31 In about lai. 53, I may draw a line from the North Sea to the oppofite part of 



the kingdom, which will comprehend a fmall part of the north of Norfolk, the 

 greater part of Lincolnjhire, Nottinghamjhire, Derbyjhire, the moor-lands of Staf- 

 fardjhire, all Chejhire, Denbighjhire, Flintjhire, Caernarvonjhire, and Anglefey. Be- 

 yond this line nature hath allotted to the northern part of thefe kingdoms certain 

 plants, of which I am about to make an enumeration, which are rarely or never 

 found to tranfgrefs that fine to the fouth. Thofe which are neareft the foutli 

 fiiall be firft taken notice of. 



Gfl/^KW boreale. Fl, Angl. i. 70. Fl. Scot. \. 116 f. 



Pulmonaria maritima. 



Ribes alpinum, 



Athamanta meum. 



Juncus triglumis. 



Rumex Digynus. 



• Gajfendus's works. Phyficse. Se£l. 3. lib. li. c. 7. 



t I refer the reader for xh&Englifh names to Mr. Hudfon'i Flora Anglica, and. Mr. LightfioCt 

 F6)ra Scgtica. 



J Vaccinium 



