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all the Plants of thole Countries, which in Bota- 
nick terms is called a Hortuf Siccus : it confifts of 
five Volumes, wherein may be feen the natural 
Leaves of Plants, and Branches alfo of all forts, 
of Trees, of which thé Leaves and Flowers of fome^ 
with their Pods, had not C when the fècond part of 
thefe Travels was firft Publifhed J loft their Colour. 
All thefe are n?atly parted on one Page, and on 
the oppofite, you have the Name of the Plant in 
Vortuguefe^ Perjian^ Indian^ Malabar and Banian: 
Then he gives a Defcription of the Plant, in {uch 'a 
manner, as not only fhews his exadnefi in all 
things, but his skill alfo in that Science, the Imal- 
left Filament is not omitted in it : He obforves the 
Places where the Plant is moft commonly to be 
found j the time when it is in Flower, bears Fruit, 
anditsVertues,if it have any that are known. The 
truth is, fo curious and elaborate a Work, might 
deferve a better Fate, than to lye moulding in the 
bottom of a Trunk, and it is no faall trouble to 
him who has it, that being unable to furnifli either 
Time or Expences for Publiftiing the lame, he is 
forced fo to let it Perifh in oblcurity; nor was it 
but only by chance neither, that he got the Figures 
of two of thefe Plants; and becaule Monfieur de 
Thezjenot^ who law them before he began his Col- 
ledion, had made an ample Defcription, and 
imall Defign of them in his Mémoires. • 
A Work of this nature may very well raife 
a high notion of its Author; but it is a lurprizing 
thing, that at the lame time he could puriiie his 
other Obfervations of the Countrey , and ftudy 
the 
