I N T R O D U CTIO N, 
I he attention of a traveller fhould be particularly 
turned, in the firft place, to the various works of 
Nature, to mark the diftinCtions of the climates he 
may explore, and to offer foch ufeful obfervations 
on the different productions as may occur. Men 
and manners undoubtedly hold the firft rank— what- 
ever may contribute to our exigence is alfo of equaj 
importance, whether it be found in the animal or 
vegetable kingdom ; neither are the various articles, 
which tend to promote the happinefs and con- 
venience of mankind, to be difregarded. How far 
the writer of the following (beets has fucceeded in 
furnifhing information on thefe fubjedts, the reader 
will be capable of determining. From the advan- 
tages the journalift enjoyed under his father Johm 
Bartram, botanift to the king of Great Britain, 
and fellow of the Royal Society, it is hoped that 
bis labours will prefen t 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- 
preflibly beautiful and pleading, equally free to the 
infpedtion 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 difpiay of the Almighty hand, than the 
vegetable world : fuch a variety of pleafmg fcenes, 
ever changing throughout the feafons, arifing from 
various 
