SCOTIA I L LV STRATA^ five Prodremus 
Hiftoriae naturalis, is^c. Authore 'Kohcno Sibbal- 
do M. D. Equite Aurato^ Medico isf Geographo 
Regio^ isr Regii Medicorum Collegii apud Edin- 
burgum Socio. Edinburgi in foL 1684. 
BEfbre we give an account of the booJ^ it felf, thefe few 
things ought to be premifed concerning tht Nuntz^ 
us ScotO'Britannus ^\\\c]x is prefixed by t\iQ u^uth or, to 
this Prodromus and is an account of the Atlas Scoticm by 
him undertaken. It contains both the reafon of his un- 
dertaking rhat great work^ which, befides \s\%Majejiies 
exprefs command, was the alteration of the country tmcc 
the and the imperfed: relations the Ignorance 
or partiality of the Moderns have given -y as alfo the feries 
or method of the whole ?i?or/^it felf, according to its boohs 
and chapters y which is done chiefly to invite thofe who 
can any way contribute to fo vaft an undertaking, to 
communicate what they have in order to it. For the dire- 
ction of which he has added his ^^r<?V,as alfo a catalogue 
of books he already has, both in Pr/V2i^ and Manufcript^ 
and of thole he has heard of and cannot get, together 
with the Geographical tables which are not in Bleau^ and 
are curioufly drawn by Mr. John Adair. 
Id the Prodromus he hath ihewn himfelf worthy of 
what he en joyes in being the K^ngs Geographer and Phyjl" 
tian there, but in this ads chiefly as the latter for after' 
he has difcourfed of in general, as to ^*ts Name, 
Limits.Dimenfions and Figure, he does the fam^ tor Scot- 
land th^ length of v/hich he computes to be 58o. £;^^/^y/^ 
miles, t\\Q breadth 150, though it is fo often invaded by 
the Sea, that fcarce any houfe in all Scotland is above 
twenty Leagues from Saltmater.tho. iongeftday he makes 
to be 18. hours ly. min. though for two monthS;, efpeci- 
