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<HEAD>PROPOSALS FOR THE <HI>Scotia Illu&s;trata;</HI> Or, <HI>Prodromus Hi|&s;toriae Naturalis Scotiae,</HI></HEAD>
<P>In Two Volumes in Latin. Folio.</P>
<P>And for the&s;e E&s;&s;ays concerning the <HI>Roman</HI> Antiquities in the North Part of <HI>Britain, Viz.</HI>
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<CELL>An E&s;&s;ay concerning the <HI>Roman</HI> Walls and Forts.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Series rerum &agrave; Romanis in Boreali h&acirc;c Bri|tanniae parte Ge&s;tarum per Nummos Romanos &amp; Lapides Scriptos illu&s;trata.</HI></CELL>
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<CELL><HI>Introductio ad Hi&s;toriam Rerum &agrave; Ro|manis, in parte Britanniae ultra Mu|rum Picticum Ge&s;tarum.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>An E&s;&s;ay to prove, that the ancient <HI>Go|thic</HI> Tongue was the <HI>Picti&s;h</HI> Language.</CELL>
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<P>OF a Thou&s;and Copies of the Fir&s;t Volume which was Printed, there being near Two Hundred un&s;old in the Author's hands, he hath now made ready for the Pre&s;s the Second Volume, and de&s;igneth to Print only a few Copies of it.</P>
<P>IN the Second Volume all the Copper-Cutts are to be placed, which are now done for an Hundred particular Subjects relating to the Work, and are contained in Fourty Tables: Some of the former Tables were cut a new, and many New Ones are added to them.</P>
<P>THIS Second Volume con&s;i&s;teth of Fourty Sheets in Print, be&s;ide the Tables: In the Fir&s;t Book of it, there are the Ob&s;ervations the Author hath made upon the Aquatic Animals, which haunt the Firth of <HI>Forth,</HI> and the&s;e amount to upwards of an Hundred and Fifty of &s;everal &s;orts, and their Names and U&s;es are Narrated; and &s;uch as are not mentioned by the Writers are de&s;cribed, and the Figures of the rare&s;t of them are done in Copper-Plates. There is likewi&s;e in the Fir&s;t Book an Account of the Sea Fowls which frequent the I&s;les and Rocks of the Firth of <HI>Forth,</HI> and there are De&s;criptions and Figures of &s;ome of the rare&s;t of them. There is al&s;o an Account of the Plants which grow in the I&s;les and Rocks, and are found upon the Coa&s;t of the &s;aid Firth. And withall, there is an Account of the Minerals, Metals &amp; Marine Sub&s;tances ca&s;t up in the Firth, or found upon the Coa&s;t thereof, and an Account of the odd Currents and Leakies, as they are called, in the Upper Part of the &s;aid Firth.</P>
<P>THE Second Book containeth the other Supplements of the fir&s;t Volume in it, there is an Account of the mo&s;t u&s;eful and rare Plants di&s;covered &s;ince the Printing of the Fir&s;t Volume; as al&s;o, of the Animals Terre&s;trial and Aquatic di&s;covered in other Parts of the Countrey, and a more particular Account of the Minerals and Metals found in the Countrey, e&s;pecially of the Figured Stones and Petrifications &s;ince the Printing of the Fir&s;t Volume, and the Er|rors of the Fir&s;t Volume are Corrected, and the Objections of &s;ome Learn'd Men are An&s;wer|ed, and con&s;iderable Additions are made to the other Treati&s;es of the Fir&s;t Volume.</P>
<P>THIS Second Volume is to be done with the &s;ame Letter, and upon the &s;ame Paper this Propo&s;al is done on.</P>
<P>THE Fir&s;t and Second of the&s;e E&s;&s;ays are Printed already in the &s;ame Letter, the&s;e Pro|po&s;als are done on; and &s;hall be delivered in Sheets without the Cuts to the Sub&s;cribers for both the Volumes, upon Payment of the fir&s;t Moyety, being 20 Shillings <HI>Sterl.</HI></P>
<P>AND the Second Volume with the Cuts both of the <HI>Prodromus</HI> and all the E&s;&s;ays, &s;hall be de|livered to the Sub&s;cribers for both Volumes upon the payment of the other Moyety, being 20 Shillings <HI>Sterl.</HI> in <HI>November</HI> next.</P>
<P>AND the&s;e who Sub&s;cribe only for the Second Volume of the <HI>Prodromus</HI> and the Four E&s;&s;ays at the Rate of Thirty Shillings <HI>Sterl.</HI> &s;hall upon the Payment of Ten Shillings have the Fir&s;t Two E&s;&s;ays already Printed, without the Cuts, delivered to them pre&s;ently, and the Second Volume with the other Two E&s;&s;ays, and all the Cuts, for the Payment of 20 Shillings <HI>Sterl.</HI> more, in <HI>November</HI> next.</P>
<P>So &s;oon as there are Sub&s;criptions and Money advanced for an Hundred Copies of both the Volumes, in South<HI>-Britain,</HI> the Printer <HI>James Wat&s;on</HI> will begin to Print the Second Volume of the <HI>Prodromus.</HI></P>
<P>THERE will be Obligatory Receipts for delivery of the Books, with the Cuts, in Sheets, got at the Author's Lodgings, and at Mr. <HI>David Freebairn</HI> and Mr. <HI>Robert Freebairn</HI> their Shops at <HI>Edinburgh.</HI></P>
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