xxiv PREFACE TO FIRST SECTION 
authentic notice which has yet appeared con- 
cerning the remains of a city once so renowned, 
but whose vestiges have been unregarded by 
any former traveller. 
The only Plants mentioned in the Notes, are 
those which have never been described by any 
preceding writer. Not less than sixty new- 
discovered species will be found added to the 
science of Botany, in this and the subsequent 
sections of Part the Second ; with many others of 
almost equal rarity, in a General List, which is 
reserved for the Appendix to the last of these 
sections. In the account given of these plants, 
and in their arrangement, the obligation due to 
A. B. Lambert, Esq. was before acknowledged ; 
but an individual, now unhappily no more, con- 
tributed, although unknown to the author at the 
time, so essentially to the completion of this 
part of the work, that it were injustice to his 
talents, as well as to the encouragement so 
liberally bestowed upon his genius by his 
benevolent Patron, not to cherish, even in this 
frail record, the lamented memory of George 
Jackson. 
The Appendix to this Volume contains some 
curious documents respecting Eastern Litera- 
ture; for whose illustration the author has been 
