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particularly in the oriental, but was himfelf alfo 

 an excellent botanift. He lamented, that by a fm- 

 gular fate, whiift the miffionaries of the Romifb 

 church had, in various other parts of the world, 

 been very inftrumental in improving natural fcience, 

 Falaftine had been totally negle6ted ; hence he was 

 doubly folicitous to recover the colledion of his 

 countryman HaJTelquifi ^ and much rejoiced that 

 it was at laft redeemed % as he hoped a view of 

 the fubjeds would throw great light on his 

 favourite purfuit of iliuftrating the Phytology of 

 the fcriptures. Hajfelquift had particular inftruc- 

 tions to attend to this point : how well he 

 performed this function, is proved by the pre- 

 lent Flora^ which is chiefly drav/n from his dif-^ 

 coveries. 



This catalogue is compiled in the fame com- 

 pendious method as the other Fkr^ of thefe vo- 

 lumes, after i\\t generic al^ only the trivial UTimt be- 

 ing cited. The author has alfo availed himfelf of 

 other helps from thofe travellers, whofe Ikili ia 

 this part of knowledge was indifputable : fome 

 plants he has introduced on the authority of Rati- 

 wolfj Profper Alpinus^ Shaw^ Pocock^ and Grono- 

 vius. The whole number amounts to fix hundred 

 fpecies. Mr. Strand has applied Celjius's names to 

 his lift, wherefoever it was poffibie ; but the curi- 

 ous will regret, that the learned author of the Hie- 

 robot anicon did not live to give the public another 

 edition of his work^ after fuch new rhaterials had 

 come to his hands. 



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