FRAGMENTS 
OF THE 
NATURAL HISTORY 
OF 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
By benjamin SMITH BARTON, M.D. 
CORRESPONDENT-MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND ; MEMBER 
OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ; FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 
OF ARTS AND SCIENCES OF BOSTON ; CORRESPONDING- MEMBER OF THE 
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ; MEMBER OF THE PHY- 
SICAL SOCIETY OF JENA ; ONE OF THE FOREIGN MEMBERS 
OF THE LINN^AN SOCIETY OF LONDON ; 
AND 
PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDIC A, NATURAL HISTORY AND BOTANY, 
IN THE 
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
PART FIRST. 
NeGLECTA, SPAESA COLLIGIT, UTILIA SELIGIT . 
BAaziri. 
QvjE Pr^senti Opusculo desunt suppleat jEtas. 
QUINTILIAN. 
PHILADELPHIA : 
PRINTED, FOR THE AUTHOR, BY WAY & GROFF, 
No. 48, NORTH THIRD-STREET. 
1799. 
