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this admirable work with very apt defcriptionsand cauf« 
^d the moft effential parts of each (vb^) the Flowers^ 
FruitS;.and their Cafes^ro be alfo engraved in large Copper 
Cuts generally as big as the Life>57 in number, each whole 
Sheet opened containing but one Plant and its parts , moft 
excellently done (they having had moft Skilful Painters 
upon the place, )to which are added the Latine^ Malabarick^ 
Arahich^ and Bramaris names. And for that part concern- 
ing the Vertues the Author hath fet forth in their own Lan- 
guage^ and with the Tranflations thereof, the Teftimonies 
of the moft learned men of the Country, as Father Mathem 
the Carmelite J jR^nga BottoFinaque^PanditOi& Apu Bandito^a 
Braman^ and Itti Achudem a Do£lor of Chegu ^c, whofe fi- 
delity Dr. Chrijlian Herma?h2ini T>. Manuel Caritier (men of 
credit and fince returned homejby feting their hands to the 
Tranflation of their Teftimonials out of their original Lan- 
guages have certified to the World the truth of thefe Rela* 
tions. 
And for the better completion of this Laudable Worke, 
that moft curious and exa£t Perfon whofe namefhould 
not be mentioned without an Encomium Dr. A. Seyn Phy- 
lick andBotanick Profejfor lately at L^j^^^/nn his Epiftle 
complaining of the defeft in fome other Authors of the 
connection and confent of others who have alfo formerly 
written on the fame SubjeU, hath been pleafed wonderfully 
to fatisfy the World and fliew his great learning in illu" 
ftrating this Worke with his notes upon each Plarit and his 
thoughts of the fame:, wherein he hath fliewed what Au- 
thors have formely written of it, and what is new 9 who 
gives a great Charafter of the Worke and that an Egg 
is not more like an Egg than the Plant to thefe Figures, 
which he defires you to look into this Garden and beholds 
Wherein our Author firft gives a large account of a fort 
of Palm^Tree which he calls Tenga^ whofe fruits are much 
coveted by Elephants ^ and the Trees Eradicated by them 
for the fame. From the Juice or Liquor of which Tree 
they there makediyers forts of DrinksjOneefpecially which 
O they 
