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Sedunum , you afcend Mount Sanetch , whofe Top is 
but feven Leagues from Sedunum [or Syori\. 
The Author adds, that the Sides of the Mountains 
produce great Variety of Modes and Fungus's, that 
the Paftures furnifh an inexpreilible Colle&ion of 
Grades, of which in this Book he mentions 220 Spe- 
cies. The following Kinds of Plants feem to be 
wanting in Switzerland, viz. the hotter Kind, fuch 
as Thyme , Lavender , and Rofemary } thofe very fre- 
quent in champain Countries 5 thofe which are pro- 
duced in Bogs and putrid Soil ; fome of thofe peculiar 
to the North, and maritime Plants. 
The Alps contain about 500 Species peculiar to 
themfelves, all diverfe, perennial mod of them, biting, 
fcented, and frequently with a white Flower ; befides 
many Plants common to other Places. 
The Author then proceeds to enumerate all the 
Botanids, who by their Journals and Publications 
have laboured to oblige the World with Hidorics and 
Defcriptions of the almod inexhaudible Number of 
Plants, which the various Soil and Situation of this 
Country produces ,* and after having mentioned the 
Performances of thefe great Men, he gives fome Ac- 
count of his own Travels, and the Progrefs of his 
botanical Studies ; that he had gone through Ger- 
many, Holland, France, and England, and made very 
few Obfervations of the botanic kind, at lead had 
preferved no Specimens of what he had feen ; but 
upon his Arrival at Bafil to attend the Le&ures of 
Bernoulli , and dudy Mathematics there, he was 
feized, as it were, by the Genius of the Place, where 
thofe great Writers the Bauhins had lived, and were 
public Profedorsj and whofe Chair at that Time 
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