TRAVELLING, he. IS. 
heads of mountains, the craggy precipices of 
rocks, or the fun lying concealed from our. 
eyes for fo many months, and thence a thick 
Cimmerian darknefs fpread over our hemk 
fphere, or elfe at another feafon darting his 
rays continually along the horizon* The like 
to all which in kind, and degree, neither HoL 
land, nor France, nor Britain, nor Germany, 
nor laftly any countrey in Europe can fliew * 
yet thither our youth greedy of novelty flock 
in troops. But it was not my intent to fpeak 
of thefe things at prefent. I come now clofer 
to my purpofe, being about to fhew by in** 
fiances, that the natural philofopher, the mi* 
neralogift, the botanifl, the zoologift, the phy- 
fician, the farmer, and all others, initiated in 
any part of natural knowledge, may And in 
travelling thro 5 our own countrey things, which 
they will own they never dreamed of before. 
Nay things which to this day were never difl 
covered by any perfon whatever. Laflly fuch 
things, as may not only gratify, and fatiate 
their curiofity $ but may be of ferviee to them-, 
felves, their countrey, and all the world. 
To give a few examples. The fagaekmt 
fearcher after nature will find here, wherewith* 
all to fharpen, and exercife his attention in be* 
4 * holding 
