Tomeki

An essay towards a natural history of the county of Dublin, accomodated to the noble designs of the Dublin Society; affording a summary view I. Of its vegetables, with their mechanical and oeconomical uses, and as food for man and cattle; a catalogue of our vegetable poisons; and a botanical kalendar, exhibiting the respective months in which most of the simples in use are found in flower. II. Of its animals. III. Of its soil, and the state of its agriculture; its fossils, mines, minerals, and some latelydiscovered mineral waters at Lucan, and its medicinal virtues, from practical observations. IV. Of the nature of the climate, from diaries of the weather, kept in Dublin for fifty years past; interspersed with meteorological observations

essay towards a natural history of the county of Dublin, accomodated to the noble designs of the Dublin Society; affording a summary view I. Of its vegetables, with their mechanical and oeconomical uses, and as food for man and cattle; a catalogue of our vegetable poisons; and a botanical kalendar, exhibiting the respective months in which most of the simples in use are found in flower. II. Of its animals. III. Of its soil, and the state of its agriculture; its fossils, mines, minerals, and some latelydiscovered mineral waters at Lucan, and its medicinal virtues, from practical observations. IV. Of the nature of the climate, from diaries of the weather, kept in Dublin for fifty years past; interspersed with meteorological observations.

By John Rutty

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Publish Date

1772

Publisher

Printed by W. Sleater, in Castle-street, for the author

Language

eng

Pages

488

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