Te Tae 
: RIGHT HONOURABLE 
The Bare of Bert. 
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MY LORD, 
WE cannot fear the Cenfure of the World, who may 
f addrefs to your Lordfhip’s moft  diftinguifhed 
Name. his Labours in a Science which has received 
fo great Improvement from your own Regard; nor 
will Malice dare to throw out her ineffectual Porfon againft 
thofe Endeavours which “have” been honoured with your 
A pprobation. | 
Botany, one of the moft ufeful among the Sciences, and 
of all the moft delightful, had lain through many Ages, re- 
ftrained in narrow Limits, and buried under artlefs Methods. 
_ Of late the Additions exceed by many Times the original 
- -—Stock: America has furnifhed us with a Number of Plants, 
_ Jarger than all the Greciaw Studies knew; and the great 
° Swede: has made Advances towards Perfection in the Science, 
fuch as perhaps no Age has feen in any other. 
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