Ripe Race 
NATURAL HISTORY 
[and of BARBADOS 
BOOK IV. 
Of VEGETABLES. 
NV N treating of thefe ufeful and beautiful Parts of the 
R Creation, I fhall take particular Notice of fuch as 
\ are curious in their Make, or ufeful in their Phyfi- 
\ cal, or other remarkable Qualities: And when I am 
obliged to differ materially, or circumftantially, 
from other Writers, it is with no other View but 
that of difcovering the Truth ; and after the joint 
laborious Inquiries of the paft, as well as the pre- 
fent Age, into fo extenfive a Subject, we may ftill 
fay with Seneca, Multa venientis evi populus ignota nobis /ciet. Multa fe- 
culis tunc, cum memoria nofiri exoleverit, refervantur ; 7. e. “ Many are thofe 
“© Secrets which are hid in Obfcurity from the prefent Age, and arereferved 
** to blefs Pofterity with their Difcoveries.” 
In our Inquiries into this Part of the Creation, we fhall be entertained 
with an agreeable Mixture of Knowlege, Profit, and Pleafure. We a 
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