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which has run through' numerous edi- 
tions, and has been a manual, in its way, 
for the whole kingdom. To an edition of 
this work, in 1761, the author prefixed 
A Short Introdudion to the Knowledge 
of the Science of Botany in w^hich he 
explains the Linncean terms of art, and il- 
luftrates the charaders of the clafTes in five 
copper-plates. This introduition wa5 alfo 
fold feparately. 
Mr. Miller held an extenfive corre- 
ipondence with perfons in diftant parts of 
the globe. From the Cape of Good Hope^ 
from Siberia, from North America, and par- 
ticularly, by means of Dr. William Hous- 
ton, from the Weji Indies^ his garden, for 
a long feries of years, received a plentiful and 
perpetual fupply of rare, and frequently of 
new fpecies, which his fuccefsful culture fel- 
dom failed to preferye. It was the remark 
pf foreigners, xki2LtGhelfea exhibited the trea- 
fures of both the Indies, Thefe advantages 
•jenabled Mil^ler to execute, what it was 
in the power of few to attempt — -His 
^* Figures of Plants, adapted to his Dic- 
" tionary/- which he began to publifh in 
numbers 
