130 . CHAPTER rO. 
it dignum opiiSy et totius rei her bar ice eo 
cevo notcey compendium T 
After what has been faid of the plan, as • 
it ftands in Gerard, it remains only to 
fhew briefly what Johnson has done. In 
about twelve pages, he has prefixed a con- 
cife, candid, and judicious account of the 
moft material writers on the fubjeft, from 
the earliefl: ages to the time in which he 
wrote; concluding with a particular account 
of his own work, from its origin in Df. 
Priest's tranflation. After this follows 
a table, pointing out, with great precifion, 
all his additions j by which we learn, that 
he enriched the work with more than eight 
hundred plants not in Gerard, and up- 
wards of feven hundred figures, beiides in- 
numerable corred;ions. By procuring the 
fame cuts that Gerard ufed, (to which 
colle£tion a confiderable accefTion had been 
made) and by having fome new blocks cut, 
ins work contained a greater number of 
figures than any Herbal extant ; the whole 
amounting to 2717. He informs us, in 
an apology he makes for not inferting hi^ 
additional matter in the edition of 1636, 
that 
