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ESSAY

TOWARDS A

NATURAL HISTORY

OF THE

COUNTY of DUBLIN,

Accommodated to the

Noble DESIGNS of the

DUBLIN SOCIETY;

Affording a fummary View

I. Of its Vegetables, with their mechanical and
œconomical Ufes, and as Food for Men
and Cattle; a Catalogue of our Vegetable
Poifons; and a Botanical Kalendar, exhibit-
ing the respective Months in which oft
of the Simples in Use are found in Flower.
II. Of its Animals.

III. Of its Soil, and the State of its Agri-
culture; its Foffils, Mines, Minerals, and
fome lately-discovered mineral Waters; par-
ticularly the fulphureous Water at Lucan, and
its medicinal Virtues, from practical Obfer-

vations.

IV. Of the Nature of the Climate, from Dia-
ries of the Weather, kept in Dublin for fifty
Years paft; interfperfed with meteorological
and œconomical Obfervations.

By JOHN RUTTY, M.D.
VO L. II.

DUBLIN: Printed for the AUTHOR, and fold by
W. SLEATER in Caftle-ftreet, and R. JACKSON
in Meath-freet, 1772.

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