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Sihthorpe, and others; but above all, of 
Smith, whose English Botany, and Flora 
- Britannica, are, independent of his previous 
celebrity, sufficient to establish his title to 
unrivalled pre-eminence.—Even Notting- 
HAxMsniRE has not been destitute of a natu* 
ralist, to record the history of her vegetable 
inhabitants; nearly a century has elapsed, 
since Deering published his “catalogue 
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“ OF PLANTS NATURALLY GROWING ABOUT 
“ NOTTINGHAM;** and although the busy 
hand of human industry has, in the lapse of 
time, altered the face of nature, and expel- 
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led many of these inoffensive tribes from the 
habitations, which they formerly occupied, 
still they are not extirpated ; they are, even 
at this day, to be discovered, by their dili¬ 
gent votaries, in tho^ sheltered assylums, 
where cultivation has not invaded the priva¬ 
cy of their sequestered retreat.—Thither 
would I conduct your steps, animated by 
the desire of introducing you to this abori- ^ 
ginal racCy many of whom have eluded the 
-observation of Veering, my predecessor, to 
