PROPOS AXS, 



For PRINTING 



AN 



ESS A Y 



TOWARDS A 



ATURAL HISTORY 



OF 



FLORIDA, CAROLINA and the BAHAMA ISLANDS: 



Containing the Figures of 



Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects and Plants; 



Particularly, the FOREST-TREES, SHRUBS, and other PL ANTS, not hitherto defcribed, 



remarkable for their Rarity, Virtues, &c. 



To which will be added, in Englijh and French, 



Their Descriptions, and History; together with Observations of 



they#r,*$b/7and Waters; with an Account of the Agriculture, Gram, 



Pulfe, Roots, &c With M APS of the Countries treated of. 



By MARK GATES B T. 



%he Author Went to Carolina in the Tear 1722. where, after having defcribed the Productions of the low and fat Parts 

 of the Country, he went from thence federal hundred Miles within Land, performing the fame amongji the Mountainous Parts. 

 After three Tears Continuance /«Carolina, and various Parts ^/Florida, he went to the B a h a m a Iuands; ambngfi 

 which he made as much Search into the like natural Productions, as nine Months Stay would admit of 



In which Undertaking he was affifted and encouraged by 



tlis Grace James Duke oîChandois. 

 The Right Honourable Edward Earl 



of Oxford. 

 The Right Honourable Thomas Earl 



of Macclesfield. 

 The Right Hon ble John Lord P e r c i v a l. 

 Sir George Markham, Bar'F. R. S. 

 SirHENRY Goodrick, Bar r . 



As Figures convey the ftrongeft Ideas, and determine the Subje&s treated of in Natural Hiftory, the Want of which hath caufed 

 fo great Uncertainty in the Knowledge of what the Antients have defcribed barely by words -, in order to avoid fuch Confu- 

 fions, we mall take care to exhibit every thing drawn by the Life, as Well as defcribed in the moll particular manner. 



Sir Hans Sloan, Ba^Prefidetit of the Royal 

 Society, and of the College of Phyficians. ! 



The Hon ble Colonel Francis Nicholson, 

 Govemour of South Carolina. 



Richard Mead, M.D.&F.R.S. 



Charles du Boys, Efq; F. R. S: 



John Knight, Efq; RR. S. 



William Sherard, L. L. D. & F. R. S. 



It is intended to publifh every Four Months TwentyPlates, with their Defcriptions, 

 and printed on the fame Paper as thefe PROPOSALS» The Price of which will 

 be One Guinea, 



For the Satisfaction of the Curious, fome Copies will be printed on the fineft Im- 

 perial Paper, and the Figures put in their Natural Colours from the O r i g i n a l 

 Paintings; at the Price of Two Guineas. ! 



'The Encourager s of this Work are only def red to give their Names and Places of Abode to the Author and his Friends, or at the 

 Places here under -mentioned : no Money being defired to be paid 'till each Sett is deliver d ; thatfo there may be no Ground tQ,fufpeSt 

 any Fraud, as happens too often in the common way of Subfcription. 



Thefe Books are to be had, 



AtVJ. Innys's, at the Weft End of St. Pauls ; and at the Author's at Mr. Bacon's late Mr. Fairchildi, mHoxlon; where raay 

 1 be feen the Original Paintings. 



