Plukenet. 1 9 
if I miftake not, the truth of this pofi- 
tion is ftrongly exemplified, in the perfon, 
of whom, in the order of time, I am next 
to fpeak. Of Dr. Leonard Plukenet, as 
far as I can find, there are fcarcely any me- 
morials, but what are to be colledled from 
the prefaces of his works ; and they afford 
indeed very fcanty information. He has told 
us, that he was born in 1642 5 but v/he- 
ther he was of EngliJJj origin, and of what 
family, does not certainly appear ; though it 
has been conjeilured, that he was of French 
extradtion. Where he received his fcho- 
Jaftic education, or at what place he took 
degrees in phyfic, I am not able to afcertain* 
Some light would be thrown on this cir- 
cumftance indeed, by determining, where 
his two friends, William Courten, Efq. 
and the Rev. Dr. Uvedale, of Enfield^ 
were educated ; fince he fpeaks of both 
thefe gentlemen, as having been his fellow- 
pupils : probably it v/as at Cambridge^ as 
he had a fon, named Richard^ purfuing his 
ftudies in that univerfity, at the publication 
oihh Alrnagejium, in 1696. Be that as it 
may^ his writings fufEciently teftify his ex~ 
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