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hurlerSy and other ftones ; and notices re- 
fpecfting the manners and language of the 
inhabitants. 
Such as are converfant with that fciencc, 
which was the favourite objed; of Mr. Ray, 
muft be fenfible that nothing could have 
happened more conducive to the revival and 
improvement of it at this jundure, than the 
circumflance, of its having been taken up 
by a man of fuch patient induftry, capable 
at the fame time of giving it all the em- 
bellifhments, and advantages that learning 
could afford. They will readily grant that 
his writings and example alone, added more 
vigour, and brought more difciples to this 
fchool of natural fcience in E»nglandy than, 
all the exertions of foregoing writers. 
I cannot confirm and illuftrate the truth 
of this pofition more eifedually, than by 
calling to the attention of the curious in 
this kind of knowledge, the vaft augmenta- 
tion it acquired, in the interval between 
the publication of Mr. Ray's Catalogiis 
Plant arum Anglian and that of the " Sj" 
nopfis and more efpecially between the 
time of the firil and fecond edition of the 
latter 
