GIVEN BY THE AMERICAN 
:UM OF NATURAL HISTORY 1934 
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PREFACE. 
It may seem unnecessary to attempt an intro¬ 
duction to Botany, after so laborious and 
established a performance as that of Mr. Lee; 
but as that work is very diffuse, and more pro¬ 
per for an adept in the science, than a young 
student; it was thought a more easy way of 
inculcating the first principles might be adopted 
on a less scale ; and by confining the necessary 
matter to each respective head, the whole might 
be so contracted as to give a general idea of 
the system at one view ; and the mind not left 
at large to expatiate over an unbounded pros¬ 
pect, which frequently creates confusion, and 
ends in disgust. 
Another reason also occurred to render this 
attempt necessary; that the price might be so 
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