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VII- An Account of a Book , Intitled , A Voyage to the 
Iflands of Madera , Barbadoes , Nieves , & Chriflophers, 
and Jamaica $ the Natural Hifiory of the Herbs 
Trees, Four-footed Beads, Eifhes, Birds, Infers, 
Reptiles, dfo. 0/ the lajl of thofe Iflands* To which is 
prefixed an Introduction, wherein is an Account of the In- 
habitants, Air , Waters , Difeafes , Trade , &c 0 0/ that 
Place , Relations concerning the Neighbouring 
Continent and Iflands of America. Illuftrated with the 
Figures of the Things defer ibed, which have not been here- 
tofore engraved , zVz large Copper Plates as big as as the Life * 
J 3 ^ Hans Sloane, M. D. Fellow of the College of Phyfi- 
cians, and Secretary of the Royal Society. In two Volumes 
in FoL 
HE Author of this Work, having, as he intimates 
in the Preface, a great defire to fatisfie his Curiofi- 
ty, and improve his Knowledge, by making particular 
Observations in tome parts of the Weft- Indies, whence a 
great part of the Materia Medica is brought to us , as 
likewife to view and examine the things themfelves in 
their Natural and Vegetating date, laid hold of an oc- 
cafion that offered it felf, and accompanied the Duke 
of Albemarle as his Phyfician in thofe Parts $ which gave 
him an opportunity of making thefe Remarks, which he 
has obliged the Inquifitive with in this Volume, which 
contains but one part of the defigned Work of A Natural 
Hifiory of Jamaica ^ nor is it wholly confined to that 
Ifland, ifince he inferts feveral curious and ufeful Obfer- 
vations in other adjacent Parts, as he had any conveni- 
ency of making them. 
In the Preface he tells us of an Indifpofition during the 
moft part of hisVoyage thither, that hindered his obferving 
The Firfl Volume . 
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