Kerry, and that furprizing harbour the Suiters 
of Buchan * may well be oppofed to the 
rocks of Blackulla , or the caverns of Skiula. 
Sweden can no where produce a parallel to 
that happy combination of grandeur and beau¬ 
ty in Kefwick f vale, or Killarny J lake ; nor 
can Europe ihew a natural wonder equal to 
the Giant's Caujeway in the north of Ireland. 
The excellence and number of our fprings 
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(whether medicinal or incrufting) are well 
known to common inquirers. 
Our minerals are as great in quantity, as 
rich in quality : of gold, indeed we cannot pro¬ 
duce many fpecimens, yet fufficient to (hew 
that it is found in this ifland §} but lilver is 
found in great abundance in our lead ores, 
and veins of native filver in the copper ores 
of Muckrus , on the lake of Killarny. The 
haematites iron ores of Cumberland, and the 
beautiful columnar iron ores of the foreft of 
Dean, are fufficient to difplay our riches in 
that ufeful commodity. No country produces 
greater quantity of tin than Cornwall and 
that county, and feveral others in the north 
have been long noted for their inexhauftible 
veins of copper , nor lefs eminent are the 
lead mines of Derhyjhire , Cardiganjhire and 
Flintjhire , which have been worked for ages, 
yet ffiew no fign of the decline of their {lores. 
» * * § ... , 
In all thefe, nature fports with great lux- 
uriancy j the cryflallized lead ore of ‘Tralee**, 
the fibrous lead ore of Pipperary ; the lami¬ 
nated lead ore of Lord Hoptoad's mines } the 
cryftalized tins, and the figured ores of Zink 
* Between Aberdeen and Peterhead. 
«-j- In Cumberland. 
+ In the County of Kerry. 
§ That our country produces gold, appears in Mr. Borlafe 's ex¬ 
cellent hiftory of Cornwall, p. 214. fo late as the year 1753 feveral 
pieces were found in what the miners call Jlream tin ; one fpeci- 
men was as thick as a goofe quill; others weighed to the value of 
feventeen {hillings, twenty feven {hillings; and another even to 
the value of three guineas. 
** In the County of Kerry. 
are equally noted for their elegance, fcarcity, 
and richnefs. 
The ore of Zink , or Lapis Calaminaris , is 
found in vaft quantities in the counties of 
Somerfet and Flint , while black lead or wadd , 
a fubftance fcarce known in other kingdoms, 
abounds in the mountains of Cumberland. 
* 
To the Swedijh Petroleum , we may oppofe 
the Well at Pitchford\ and St .Catherine's well 
near Ldenburgh 5 our amber and our jet, 
together with our inexhauftible ftrata of 
coal found in fo many parts of this kingdom, 
will, in the article of bitumens, give us the 
fuperiority over thefe fo much boafted pro¬ 
ductions of Sweden. 
To avoid a tedious enumeration, we ffiall 
only mention our wonderful mines of rock 
fait $ our allum, and our vitriol works ; our 
various marbles, alabafters, and ftones; our 
moft excellent clays and earths * ; all which 
articles, and many more unnoticed here, might 
have furniffied us with an ample field for 
panegyric, 
Our botanical productions are not lefs 
abundant; but the works of Mr. Ray , which 
have lately been much enlarged and methodi¬ 
zed, according to the Linntean lyftem, by the 
ingenious Mr. Hudfon , in his Flora Anglic a, 
are a fufficient difplay of our vegetable riches. 
j * - r * 
Our Zoology would be a copious lubjeCt 
to enlarge on, but the work in hand reftrains 
us from anticipating our readers curiofity. We 
might 
* If the inquifitive reader is defirous of a farther account of 
the number and excellence of our fubterraneous produftions, we 
refer him to the learned Dr. Woodward's catalogue of the Englijh 
Fojfils , London 1729, particularly to p. 5. 
