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To avoid a tedious enumeration, we thall 
only mention our wonderful mines of rock | 
falt ; our allum and our vitriol works; our 
various marbles, alabafters, and ftonés ; our 
moft excellent clays and earths *; all which 
articles, and many more unnoted here, might 
have furnifhed us with an ample field sa pa- 
negyric, 
Our botanical Sectoid 1s are not lefs abun- 
dant; but the works of Ray, which have 
lately been much enlarged and methodized, 
according to the Linnean fyftem, by the in- 
genious Mr. Hud/on, in his Flora Anglia, 
are a fufficient difplay of our vegetable riches. 
Our Zoology would be a copious fubject 
to enlarge on, but the work in hand re- 
{trains us from anticipating our reader’s curi- 
ofity. We might expatiate on the clouds 
of Soland geefe which breed on the Ba/s 
land, or Puffins on that of Prie/tholme: on 
our fifth, and other marine animals; on our 
infects, and the various other fenfitive pro- 
ductions of this kingdom; but we forbear a 
* If the inguifitive reader is defirous of a farther account 
of the number and excellence of our fubterraneous produc- 
tions, we refer him to the learned Dr. Woodward’s Cata- 
Jocue of the Exglifo Fofils, London 1729, particularly to p. 5. 
parade: 
