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A28496	Irelands naturall history being a true and ample description of its situation, greatness, shape, and nature, of its hills, woods, heaths, bogs, of its fruitfull parts, and profitable grounds : with the severall ways of manuring and improving the same : with its heads or promontories, harbours, roads, and bays, of its springs, and fountains, brooks, rivers, loghs, of its metalls, mineralls, free-stone, marble, sea-coal, turf, and other things that are taken out of the ground : and lastly of the nature and temperature of its air and season, and what diseases it is free from or subject unto : conducing to the advancement of navigation, husbandry, and other profitable arts and professions / written by Gerald Boate ; and now published by Samuell Hartlib for the common good of Ireland and more especially for the benefit of the adventurers and planters therein.	Boate, Gerard, 1604-1650.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B3373; ESTC R27215	105,129	208

of God from the least to the greatest and although the Father hath reserved in his own hand the times and seasons wherin these promises are to be fulfilled yet as by the dawning of the day we can know that the Sun is neer rising so by the breaking of yoakes the breaking forth of the meanes of more perfect knowledge both in Natural and Spiritual things wee may see the drawing neer of the promises which will in their own times Constitute the day of Salvation unto all the Earth wherein all flesh shall see the glory of the Lord together The expectation of this day is the hope of Israel and those that wait for the Lord and his appearance therein shall find a plentious redemption namely such as having this hope purifie themselves that they may be found in peace at his appearing and such as being solicitous to bestow their Talents in their way and generation to the advancement of his approaching Kingdom shall approve themselves as faithfull servants to him in that day Of this Number I am perswaded your Honours are in these Nations as Leading Men therefore I have made bold thus to address my self unto you and to inscribe this Work unto your Names that it may see the light under your joint patronage God hath made You very eminent Instruments to set forward one part of the preparatives of his great Work the Breaking of our yokes the other part which is the Advancement of Spirituall and Natural sanctified Knowledge your Zeal I am sure will carry you to countenance by the wayes which Providence shall open unto You. Therefore I hope it wil not be without acceptance what in this kind though but a mean beginning I have here offered Your influence upon it to set forward Learned Endeavours of this Nature for a Publick Good may be a blessing unto Posteritie and your Relations of Eminent note unto Ireland to watch for the good therof and to the Universities of Oxford and Dublin to countenance all the Meanes of profitable Learning have encouraged me to make this Dedication besides the expressions of your Honours willingness to favour me in my undertakings which I knew no way so well to resent as by offering to your Generous Inclinations the Objects which are worthy of being considered and set forward in order to a common good I lookt also somewhat upon the hopefull appearance of Replanting Ireland shortly not only by the Adventurers but happily by the calling in of exiled Bohemians and other Protestants also and happily by the invitation of some well affected out of the Low Countries which to advance are thoughts suitable to your noble genius and to further the setlement thereof the Naturall History of that Countrie will not bee unfit but very subservient Thus beseeching the Lord to prosper all your undertakings to the glory of the Kingdom of Christ I take my leave and rest unfeignedly Your Honours most humble servant SAMUEL HARTLIB To the Reader Gentle Reader SOme particulars there are concerning this following Work of which I think it sit you should be advertised and for as much as I can tell you no more of them than what was written to me by the Authors most Loving and Learned Brother give me leave in stead of mine own Words to present you with his said Letter on that subject being such as doth follow Sir I Am very glad to understand by you that my Brothers work of the Naturall History of Ireland is not only not lost as I greatly feared i● was and that you have found it in perusing those books and papers of his which he had left behind him at London but that you are a going to print it and have already contracted about it by the doing whereof I am fully perswaded that you will gain both credit and contentment and that those shall no wayes be losers who will bee at the charges of doing the same For though I say it the work is excellent in it's kind as not only full of truth and certainty but written with much judgment order exactness so as it is to be preferred before most Naturall Histories of particular Countries and may well be equalled to the very best for as much as there is done of it For to make it a compleat Naturall History there should be joyned to that which my Brother hath gone through two Books more the one of all kind of Plants and the other of all sorts of living Creatures which also might have been expected of him if God had given him longer life For he intended assoon as he had published this part to have fallen also to the rest if he had found that he had not lost his labour on what was done already that it had met with a gratefull acceptance abroad such as might have incouraged him to take further paines ●bout the perfecting of it in which case he was resolved to have also joined a Fourth book to those other Three concerning the Natives of Ireland and their old Fashions Lawes and Customes as likewise the great paines taken by the English ever since the Conquest for to civilize them and to improve the Countrie You say you wonder others may justly concurre with you in that your wonderment how a Countrie could bee so accurately described by one who never was in it For although my Brother hath been in Ireland and that he hath ended his dayes there yet he had both begun and finished this First Book of his Naturall History of Ireland some yeares before he went thither or had any thoughts of doing so seeing that he begun to write that work in the beginning of the year of our Lord 1645. and made an end of it long before the end of the same year wheras he went not to Ireland untill the latter end of the year 1649. dyed at Dublin within a very short while after he was arrived there viz. on the 19th of Ianuary 16 ●0 49. Now to answer that difficulty moved by you be pleased to know that I being come from Dublin to London in the beginning of May 1644. and having stayed there untill the latter end of October great part of that conversation which he and I had together during those six months was spent in reasoning about Ireland and about all manner of particulars concerning the Morall and Civill but chiesly the Naturall History of the same my Brother beeing very carefull to inform himself of me about all things appertaining thereunto For besides that his curiositie which was very great for to enrich his mind with all manner of laudable knowledge was of it self alone capable enough for to make him inquisitive in that kind he was there-besides led thereto by his own interest having ventured great part of his estate upon the escheated lands there according to the severall Acts made by the King and Parliament in that behalf And having set down in writing what he had so heard of me he conferred afterwards about the same