eeeaeeeueeeeeeeeeeeaeeegeeeeeaeeeeegeeeeeeeee An Aduertifemcnt to the Readers. V

Ourteoua Reader:,I haue thought ft to oduertzﬁ: you, that inthis fecond Edition of revuifed

Gerrard, you mu]? not expezfi any Additionsor L/Ilte7_fat10ﬂ5,0therWZﬁ’ than an Amendment

of thofe few Errata I noted in the former Edition : nahzch were chiejzy of FI;gol7',55 “'4”/]>afed and V erhall efcape: 3 of which later fort,you may perhapseﬁnde here and there one , yetfuch as tho meanefi Reader may without yr!) difﬁcultie amend. I know it will he expeited, that ﬁjhould heme giuen the Figure: of fuch thinggan I formerly deliueredthe Hiﬂory of without them Sah alﬁ 4”

’ Vlddztion of more Plants : hoth which ( I muff confeﬂe) I could haue done, and the l ‘ate? in gr 54‘

nunzher-,yet rvpon thejefallo wing confiderations ( whereof I would not haue you ignorangr) I forhorﬁ iheperﬁarmance. Fz'rﬂ,for that I haue determined with myfelfe (hy G od: favourahle /Afﬁﬁance) 17;)’ the joint hel of ﬂzme of my ﬁiends (ofwhorn mention is made in my E piflle to the Reader)to travel? over the mojlpart: of this K ingdome, for the ﬁnding out offuch Plantgecegrow naturally in Eng- land 5 which how farre we haue already performed may he found hy diuerxplaces in Gerrard, hi!‘ chieﬂy hy n2’ Mercurius Botanicus, fet forth Arman 6;4. hetweene the time of the former Im- preﬂion an thi5.For I iudge it requcﬁte that weﬂ; ouldtahour to know th_o[e Blunt: which (are,an cuer are like to he Inhahitant: of this I _/le ;for I verily heleeue that the diutne Prouidencre had a cart in heflowing Plants in each part of the Earth, ttinguand convenient to the forelcnontnc rgeccfﬁties of the future Inhahitant:5and zfwee throng hly new the Vertue: of theje, we needed no I ridian nor A-, merioan Drugges. _

Secondly, I haue ﬁ2mefiiend:,addz‘c't'ed to thio jludy, goneiuto forreigne parts gﬁom whom I ex"-

. pee? to receiuc ﬂmze things to the further L/Iugmentation of my intended Worlce.

‘Thirdly , there will hee required more time ﬁr the performance herco ; th47t”z'*h:.:' to J3‘ ﬁrth hoth the]? Edition; , ﬁar one may more eaﬁly repaire an old Building , than rear: 1? WW one. L-zjtly, /iech 44 haue hought the fbrmer Edition ﬂmll reeeiue no injury ; which they‘ would ham’: 11076,?‘/I had added fame few thin s to this (for the Boolze is already ﬁt hlgge , it wouldhot haue ad— mftfedmuch.) But I hauethoug t it more convenient to jet ﬁn-th ayzartfuch Figure: andother Ad- d"i0ﬂ$,M I fhall iucz:/ge ﬁtgﬁn‘ compleating of this H iflory of Plant: 5 and then any thn’ haut thtlt forncer,my zftheyplexze aue the later up, and none he injured. _ The]? with fome at or eon/ideration: needlefﬁ here to dealers, ncoued melt tofbrh. are the E»: hirgemcnt of this fecond Edition.

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