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yet been difcovered peculiar to each County. Nay 

 in thefe Catalogues [added to Camden's Brit J] I pre- 

 tend not to fo much , but have entitled them only 



Catalogues of more rare Plants growing in this or that 

 County, not affirming them to be peculiars. You muft 

 needs grant, that different Soils and different Climates, 

 and tempers of Air, produce different Species > and 

 confequently the Mountainous and Northern Parts of 

 this Ifland differ from the more level, depreffed and 

 Southern, not to confine our felves to Counties. But 

 enough of this. 



MvPafchall to Mr. Ray. 



SIR, 



I Was lately thinking that this Globe in feveral parts t 

 and times, and ftates of it, fends forth various Ef~ 

 fluvia, Sulphureous, Nitrous, Aqueous, &?f, in grea- 

 ter abundance, one or other, or Competitions of them, 

 as Caufes concur. 



I have fufpe&ed, that in this unufual Conftitution 

 of the Air we are now in, the fulphureous Steams 

 have abounded, partly from beautiful and promifing 

 blowing of Fruit-trees, and from the warmth of the 

 Seafon, and from the frequent Lightnings we have* 

 Laft Night I noted in my own Orchard, in this 

 my low Countrey Habitation, what confirms me in 

 it, walking between two fair Codling Hedges I noted 

 fomething to fall white upon my Hat : It felt clammy, 

 and tafted fweet 3 I took it off with my Knife , the 

 white Grains ran into a clear Liquor, and in a ihort 

 time I was able to get together a fmall quantity in- 

 to a little Gally-pot that I keep y upon fliaking of any 

 Bough this would fall as a Mift doth. All Day in 

 ihefe Hedges was aNoife as of a fwarm of Bees. We 



faw 



