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articles, and many more unnoted here, 
might have furnifhed as with an ample field 
for panegyric, 
Our botanical productions are not lefs abun- 
dant; but the works of Ray, which have 
lately been much enlarged and methodized, 
according to the Linu@an fyftem, by the in- 
genious Mr. Hudjon, in his Fhra <Anglica, 
are a fufficient difplay of our vegetable riches. 
Our Zoology would be a copious fubje& 
to enlargeon, but the work in hand reftrains 
usfrom anticipating ourreaders curiofity. We 
might expatiate on the clouds of Solaxd geefe 
which breed onthe Ba/s sfland, or Pujiins on that 
of Priefiholme: onour fifth, and other marineani- 
mals; on our infects, and the various other 
fenfitive productions of this kingdom; but we 
forbear a parade of ufelefs declamation, and 
fhall only add, that as few countries receive 
more advantages from their natural breed of 
quadrupeds, unmixed with any beaft that 
preys on man, fo, few.can boaft a greater 
variety of birds, whether local, or migratory. 
This is a. general view of the natural hifto- 
ry of our own country; why then fhould we 
neglect inquiring into the various benefits that 
refult from thefe inftances of the wifdom of 
our Creator, which his divine munificence has 
fo liberally, and fo immediately placed before 
us?-Such a neglect is certainly highly to be 
tions, we refer him tothe learned Dr. #o2dward’s catalogue 
of the Englifh Foffils, London 1729, particularly to p. 5. 
a Ue) blamed 
