INTRODUCTION, 
•I HE attention of a traveller mould be particularly 
turned in the firft place, to the various works of 
Nature, to mark the diftincuons of the climates he 
may explore, and to offer fuch ufeful observations 
on the different productions as may occur. Men 
and manners undoubtedly hold the firft rank — -what 
ever may contribute to our exiflence is aifo of equal 
importance, whether it be found in the animal or 
vegetable kingdom ; neither are the various articles, 
which tend to promote the happinefs and conveni- 
ence of mankind, to be disregarded. How far the, 
writer of the following meets has fucceeded in fur- 
mining information on thefe fubjecls, the reader will 
be capable of determining. From the advantages 
the journaiifl enjoyed under his father John Bar- 
tram, botanift to the king of Great Britain, and 
fellow of the Royal Society, it is hoped that his la- 
bours will prefent new as well as ufeful information 
to the botanift and zoologifl. 
This world, as a glorious apartment of the bound* 
lefs palace of the fovereign Creator, is furnifhed whh 
an infinite variety of animated fcenes, inexpreflibly 
beautiful and pleafmg, equally free to the infpe&ion 
and enjoyment of all his creatures. 
Perhaps there is not any part of creation, within 
the reach of our obfervations, which exhibits a more 
glorious difplay of the Almighty hand, than the ve- 
getable world ; fuch a variety of pleafmg fcenes, 
ever changing throughout the feafons, arifing from 
various caufes, and affigned each to the purpofe and 
ufe determined. 
It is difficult to pronounce which divifion of the 
eaith, between the polar circles, produces the greater! 
b variety 
