PREFACE. 
An attempt to make the Public acquainted with 
fome of the produ6tions of a country of which they 
have lately heard fo much, and in which they are 
now as a nation fo deeply interefted — a country too fo 
extremely unlike all thofe heft known to Europeans, 
cannot fail to be acceptable, however imperfect in 
its extent. The prefent work mull be conlidered only 
as, what it pretends to be, a Specimen of the riches of this 
mine of botanical novelty. It may inform the cultivators 
of plants concerning what they have already obtained 
from New Holland, as well as point out fome other 
things worthy of their acquilition in future. As the 
author intends it for the ufe of his countrymen and 
countrywomen, it is written in their own language — 
a language every day growing more univerfal, and 
which many circumftances now feem to point out as 
likely to become the mod: fo of any modern one. 
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