DEDICATION. 



unreasonably to call: on refearches of 

 this kind, notwithstanding they are 

 the only folid and rational means 

 whereby we may ever hope to make 

 any real advance in the knowledge 

 of Nature : A knowledge, worthy the 

 attainment of Princes* 



And as Solomon, the greateft and 

 wifeft of men, difdained not to in- 

 quire into the nature of Plants, from 

 the Cedar in Lebanon, to the Hyjfop 

 that fpringeth out of the wall : So it 

 will not, I prefume, be an unaccept- 

 able entertainment to Your Royal 

 Hicrhnefs, at leaft at Your leifure 

 hours ; but will rather add to the 

 pleafure, with which vegetable Na- 

 ture in her prime verdure charms us : 

 To fee the fteps flie takes in her pro- 

 ductions, and the wonderful power 

 (he therein exerts: The admirable 



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