INTRODUCTION* 
1 HE attention of a traveller fhould be particularly 
turned, in the firft place, to the various works of 
Nature, to mark the diftin&ions of the climates he 
may explore, and to offer fuch ufeful obfervations 
on the different productions as may occur. Men 
and manners undoubtedly hold the firft rank— what- 
ever may contribute to our exiftence is alfo of equal 
importance, whether it be found in the animal or 
vegetable kingdom ; neither are the various articles, 
which tend to promote the happinefs and conve- 
nience of mankind, to be difregarded. How far 
the writer of the following fheets has fucceeded in 
furni filing information on thefe fubjedts, the reader 
will be capable of determining. From the advan- 
tages the journalift enjoyed under his father John 
Bartram, botanift to the king of Great Britain, 
and fellow of the Royal Society, it is hoped that 
his labours will prefent new as well as ufeful infor- 
mation to the botanift and zoologift. 
This world, as a glorious apartment of the bound - 
lefs palace of the fovereign Creator, is furnifhed 
with an infinite variety of animated fcenes, inex- 
preffibly beautiful and pleaiing, equally free to the 
infpedlion and enjoyment of all his creatures. 
Perhaps there is not any part of creation, within 
the reach of our obfervations, which exhibits a more 
glorious difplay of the Almighty hand, than the 
vegetable world ; fuch a variety of pieafmg fcenes, 
ever changing throughout the feafons, arifing from 
various 
