Year: 1776
Type: book
Abstract: Killarny * lake ; nor can Europe thew a na= tural wonder equal to the Gyant's Caufeway in the north of Ireland.The excellence and number of our fprings (whether medicinal or incrufting) are well known to common inquirers.RaelOur minerals are as great in quantity, as rich in quality: of gold, indeed, we cannot produce many fpecimens, yet fufficient tofhew that it is found in this ifland-+-; but filver is found in great abundance in our lead ores, and veins of native filver in the copper ore of Muckrus, on the lake of Killarny.The hzematites 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 fo great a quantity of tin as Cornwall; and that county, and feveral others in the north have been long noted for their inex~ hauftible veins of copper; nor lefs famous * In the county of Kerry.+ That our country produces gold, appears in Dr. Borla/e's Hiftory of Corzwall, p.214.So late as the year 1753, feveral ' therine's near Edinburgh.Our amber and our jet, together with our inexhauftible firata 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 productions of Sweden.* Jn the county of Kerry.a 4 To Ved Vill Oe Roy BA ES Ago ae ee To avoid a tedious enumeration, we thall only mention our wonderful mines of rock | falt ; our allum and our vitriol works; our various marbles, alabafters, and ftonés ; our moft excellent clays and earths *; all which articles, and many more unnoted here, might have furnifhed us with an ample field sa panegyric, Our botanical Sectoid 1s are not lefs abundant; but the works of Ray, which have * If the inguifitive reader is defirous of a farther account of the number and excellence of our fubterraneous produc-tions, we refer him to the learned Dr. Woodward's Cata-Jocue of the Exglifo Fofils, London 1729, particularly to p. 5. parade: " BORO ES, FY Ast GC ER parade of ufelefs declamation, and fhail only add, that as few countries receive more advantages from their natural breed of quadrupeds, unmixed with any beaft that preys on man, fo, few can boaft a greater variety of birds, whether local, or migratory.This is a general view of the natural hiftory of our own country; why then fhould we neglect inquiring into the various benefits that refult from thefe inftances of the wifdom of our.Creator, which his divine munificence has fo liberally, and fo immediately placed before us?Such a neglect is certainly highly to be blamed, for (to exprefs ourfelves in the words of an eminent writer) "the Creator did not beftow fo much "< curiofity, and workmanfhip on his crea-."' tures, to be looked on with a carelefs in-"* curious eye, efpecially to have them flight-"'ed or contemned; but to be admired by '* the rational part of the world, to magnify "* his own power to all the world, and the "* ages thereof; and fince the works of the "creation are all of them fo many demon-'* {trations of the infinite wifdom and power '© of God, they may ferve to us, as fo ma-** ny arguments exciting us to a conftant fear Plurimus inde labor tabulas imitando juvabit Egregias, operumque typos, fed plura docebit Natura ante oculos prefens, nam firmat et auget Vim genii, ex illaque artem experientia complet +}.* That great artift, Mr. Ridinger, of dufburg, exceeds allothers in the three laft particulars; nothing can equal his prints of animals for propriety of attitudes, for a juft idea of their way of life, and for the beautiful and natural fcenery that accompanies them.His fineft works are, his WildeThiere, Kleine Thiere, and 'Fagdbare Thiere; but there are fearce any of his performances that can fail giving pleafure to all admnirers of nature reprefented as herfelf.4 Frefnoy de arte graph.lin.537+
Author: Thomas Pennant
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4235066548