SAMUEL DALE. 227 
During the next twelve years we know but little of Dale’s life 
and work. In 1721 he was at Ramsgate, and received plants from 
Uvedale; and in the following year he visited Cambridge and 
Hitham. He was also at Sherard’s garden, at the latter place, in 
1724, '25, 26, and ’31. In 1723 and ’24 he received specimens 
om Andrews, of Sudbury, with whom he seems to have been on 
- intimate terms, their practices being within riding distance, and 
whom he visited in 17 
In 1725, also, he received a ce of plants from Mr. Matthews, 
ty-Governor of St. Kitt’s; in 1726 some specimens from 
Dillenius, then at Eltham; ahd in 1727 ‘**plante Indie Orientalis 
collects a Francisco Dale.” This Francis Dale, spoken of as 
m Bahama, with sabia some of which were raised in 
the Braintree garden. 
n 1780 Dale published the second great work of his life, 
phe History and Antiquities of Harwich and Dovercourt, in the 
County of Essex,’ by Silas Taylor, Geni; to which is added a 
Lingo kpoendix, ae the Natural History of the Sea-coast 
many favours.” Of Dale | 
pre it ‘a real acquisition to science,” says that in the ‘ 
notes, amounting to much the greater part of the book. Howso- 
ever respectable our author may appear as an antiqua 
equally so as a naturalist.” ) 
ing more than 80 0 miles from the pi and being soon 
perhaps one day or two in a year, and that , 
He dwells at length upon the cliff, “« whose imbedded Fossils, a 
says, “I had there discovered ; the first Invention of which the late 
Dr. Woodward in publick company attributed to me.” He describes 
cement-stones, ‘‘ copperas stones,” i.¢. pyritous nodules, used in 
manufactures in bea neighbourhood, 2 «6 ‘‘selenites,” “a 
a,” oc 
congeries of Verm 
al 
bra ileum ;” an es a plate vcpnemmadig the Crag resting 
rosa the London Clay, and forming an overhanging cliff. t 
endix he ae | twelve Crustacea, sixty fishes, forty-seven 
birds , six “marine insects,” thirty-six Testacea, 
ants; so that, whilst the 
history, it became in his ha 
productions of the neighbourhood, such a 
ven in our own day. It reached a second edition in 17382, 
