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PREFACE. 



fliould alone be the point at which fcience 

 fhould aim; and what knowlege can be 

 more ufeful than of thofe objects with which 

 we are moft intimately conned:ed ? and where 

 can we reafon with greater certainty on fuch 

 points, than in our own country, where a con- 

 ilant recourfe may be had to the fpecimen of 

 what we have under coniideration ? But thefe^ 

 and many other arguments for examining into- 

 the productions of our own illand, may here 

 be waved, as the admirable LINN^US 

 has difplayed them at large in an oration * 

 which for mafterly reafoning, and happy in- 

 genuity, may vie with the beft compofitions. 



Yet, as that great naturaliil haSj in the. 

 fame tra6t, publiihed an eulogium on Sweden -, 

 and as an incitement to his countrymen to 

 •apply themfelves to the ftudy of nature, enu- 

 merated the natural productions of that king- 

 dom j we fhall here attempt a parallel, and 

 point out to the Britijh reader, his native 

 riches ; many of which were probably un- 

 known to him, or perhaps (lightly regarded. 



Do the heights of l^orpurg, or Swucku af- 

 ford more inftruCtion to the naturaliil thaii^ 

 the mountains, of Cumberland, or Caernarvon^ 

 ff:ire? whofe fides are covered with a rich va- 

 riety of uncommon vegetables, while their 

 bowels are replete with the mod ufeful mine- 

 rals. Th^ Derby Jhire hi\h, abounding in all 

 the magnificence of caves and cliffs; the 



* Aman,acad. torn. 2.p.^og,SlillingJIeefsSw(diJhtra.diS. tr. i. 



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