354 CHAPTER 26. 
WARD, that plants are nourifbed by the 
earthy principle alone. 
An Effay towards a Natural Hiftory 
of Weftmorland and Cumberland , wherein 
" an account is given of their feveral mi- 
** neral and furface produdlions/* By "Tho-- 
mas Robinson, redior of Oujbyy in Cum- 
berland, 1709. 8°. The fcope of this vo- 
lume principally takes in the foflils of thefe 
northern counties. The author has been 
mentioned before, as a correfpondent of 
Mr. Ray. He here enumerates profef- 
fediy the plants not mentioned in the iSy- 
riopjis of that author, amounting to about 
twenty; of which, however, fome were 
only varieties. 
The Natural Hiftory of Northampton" 
*^ Jhire, with fome account of the Antiqui- 
ties." By John More ton, A.M. F.R.S. 
reftor of Oxendony in the fame county. 
Lond. 1712. foL This is a work of me- 
rit. In the lift: of plants, feveral occur ad- 
ditional to thofe noticed by Ray ; even 
fome of the molTes are not forgotten. The 
author treats largely on figured foflils, of 
which 
