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fuaded that fomething of this kind^ on a more 

 extended fcale, written in the language of the 

 country, and adapted to common ufe, could not 

 fail to meet with a favourable reception, and 

 would certainly be highly beneficial, not only by 

 difclofing matter of real and inftant information 

 to many who are ignorant of the various appli- 

 cations that have already been made of plants 

 which are daily negle6led, but, by exciting a fpirit 

 of invefligation in general, would doubtlefs lead to 

 new difcoveries. An economical Flora ^ or Herbal^ 

 is what we have never yet feen \ our works that 

 bear the name of Herbals treat on plants and trees, 

 as if their utility was alone confined to the pur- 

 pofes of phyfic, and even here, in a variety of 

 inftances, attribute to them virtues which neither 

 their fenfible qualities have juilified, nor experi- 

 ence has afcertained. 



We have obferved that this work is confined 

 to the native plants of the country, out of which, 

 as an inftance of the variety of fubjeds that are here 

 mentioned as objedls of economy in various ways, 

 there are not lefs than three hundred that have a 

 place in this catalogue. 



18. De CuRiosiTATE Naturali. 0. Soderhergy 



1748. 



This concluding paper of the firft volume, is a 

 difcourfe intended as an incitement to the ftudy 

 of natural hiilory, by a train of well- connected 

 arguments and obfervations, drawn from that ad- 

 mirable difplay of wifdom^ and goodnefs manifefl 



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