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guage^ and it may be prefumed, that it 
gained equally the approbation of medical 
people, and of all thofe who were curious 
and inquifitive in this kind of knowledge. 
Both this work, and Gerard's afterwards, 
acquired confequence by the references of 
Mr. Ray, who may be faid, in the lan- 
guage of the Catalogus Oxonienfis^ to have 
raifed them to claffical eminence in En- 
glifh Botany, and preferved them from ob- 
livion as long as his own works remain. 
Without any defign of depriving Johnson 
of his due praife, yet it is obvious, from 
the recolle£lion of certain circumftances, 
that Parkinson laboured under cjifad van- 
tages and impediments, v/hich probably 
tended to deprefs his work at the time, al- 
though it had undoubtedly been carrying on 
through a longer feries of years than Jolm^ 
JonSy and was more copious in its defign. 
Johnson had the opportunity that Ge- 
rard himfelf obtained, of procuring all 
jthe cuts from abroad, Parkinson's, on 
the other hand, though copied from the 
fame figures, appear to have been cut anew, 
purpofelv for his work. The delay occa- 
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