2Q4 CHAPTER 42. 
different fite of the countiy throughout 
Ireland 5 its mountains, lakes, creeks, and 
moors, unquefliionably afford fcope to a 
great variety of vegetables ^ and the poverty 
of Threlkeld's Flora has left a rich 
harveft to the Irifl) botaniil : for, notwith- 
Handing the coniiderable time elapfed fince 
the publication of his book, aqd the lauda- 
ble attempts of the Dublin Society, I know 
not that Ireland has fince been examined 
by any perfon of acknowledged abilities in 
the fcience. What might not fuch an ad- 
venturer expeft, from a country, which 
nurtures on its mountains the Andromeda 
T>abcecia^ the Dry as oBopefala, and the 
Saxifraga umbrofa of the Alps ; and, ojn 
the borders of its enchanting lakes, the^r-* 
butiis Unedo of Greece^ 
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