Excerpt from Hortus America: Containing an Account of the Trees, Shrubs, and Other Vegetable Production of South-America and the West India Islands, and Particularly of the Island of Jamaica, Interspersed With Many Curious and Useful Observations, Respecting Their Uses in Medicine, D

It would be doing injustice to the memory of the late doctor Barhamn, to suppose it necessary for the editor to make any formal apology for publishing what is universally allowed to be the genuine performance of so respectable a character, and which, from is own intrinsic merit, cannot fail of recommending itself to every reader.

Although no doubt can be entertained of the genuineness of the work, yet it must be owned that there is much appearance of want of exactness, and such perfection as might be expected from his hand: This, however, must be attributed to the length of time which has elapsed since the death of the author, and the numerous hands through which the manuscript has passed.

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