6 C H A P T E R 27. 
Dr. SiBBALD having thrown out fome 
ftri6tures on the mathematical principles of 
phyfic, for which the learned Dr. Pit- 
CAiRN was a ftrenuous advocate, the latter 
wrote a fevere fatire on this work, under 
the title De Legibus Hijloric^ Naturalist 
Edin. 1696. But it contains nothing 
folid, and was thought by fome to have 
been the refult of party, if not perfonal 
dillike. 
Among the Mlfcellanca qut:edam eriidkce 
Antiquitatis'^ of Sir Robert ^ publifhed in 
17 10, there is a Differtation on the Char a 
of C^sAR *, mentioned alfo by Dio, on 
which the fcldiers of Valerius'% army fub- 
lifted, under a penury of bread. This root 
has been by fome fuppofed to be the Kare-- 
mile^ Carmele, or, as Mr. Lightfoot 
-calls it, the Corr^ or, Cor-jneilk -f-, of the 
Highlanders, It is the Orobus tuberofus Lin- 
nm, our Wood Peaie. 
In his Hiftory of the Sheriffdom of 
Fife and Kinrofs^' printed the fame year, 
is a catalogue of plants, chiefly maritime^ 
f De Bella ClviU^^ lib. iii. § 40. 
t See Pennant's Tour in Scotland^ vol. i. Appen- 
dix, 292. 
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