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piiecy ever he fpoke, though he knew not whom h? 
Ipoke ofr 
TL An Al^raB of a Bool^, viz. dn Ac- 
count of the Iflands of Orkney. By James 
Wallace, M D. and Fellow of the Roy- 
ai Society. To which is added ^ an Effay con- 
cerning the Thule of the Ancients. 8 0. Lon^ 
doa 
IHefe cold barren Iflands being under the Proteai- 
on of a Great Man^ and here defcribedby a very 
ving and )uAicio\xs Fhyfician:, are like to make 
fome figure in the world,, efpeeially amongft thofe who 
prefer the certainty of Nature to meer notional Specu- 
lations. 
The work confifts of eight Chapters 5 in the firft o£ 
which, the feveral Names, the Longitudes, Latitudes^ 
Boundaries, the Ebbings and Flo wings of the Sea, the 
Harbours and Merchandizes are treated. 
' The fecond comprehends the Vlants^ Animals and' 
Foffils. The Vegetables alone amount to near 300, 
all or moft herbaceous ones, there being no indigenous 
Ttees, only here and there Tome planted in Gardens, 
but they provq dwarts, feldom bearing any mature 
fruit, whereas in more Northerly parts of Norway Trees- 
