In Two Volumes in Latin . Folio .

And for these Essays concerning the Roman Antiquities in the North Part of Britain , Viz . An Essay concerning the Roman Walls and Forts . Series rerum à Romanis in Boreali hâc Britanniae parte Gestarum per Nummos Romanos & Lapides Scriptos illustrata . Introductio ad Historiam Rerum à Romanis , in parte Britanniae ultra Murum Picticum Gestarum . An Essay to prove , that the ancient Gothic Tongue was the Pictish Language .

OF a Thousand Copies of the First Volume which was Printed , there being near Two Hundred unsold in the Author's hands , he hath now made ready for the Press the Second Volume , and designeth to Print only a few Copies of it .

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 .

THIS Second Volume consisteth of Fourty Sheets in Print , beside the Tables : In the First Book of it , there are the Observations the Author hath made upon the Aquatic Animals , which haunt the Firth of Forth , and these amount to upwards of an Hundred and Fifty of several sorts , and their Names and Uses are Narrated ; and such as are not mentioned by the Writers are described , and the Figures of the rarest of them are done in Copper-Plates . There is likewise in the First Book an Account of the Sea Fowls which frequent the Isles and Rocks of the Firth of Forth , and there are Descriptions and Figures of some of the rarest of them . There is also an Account of the Plants which grow in the Isles and Rocks , and are found upon the Coast of the said Firth . And withall , there is an Account of the Minerals , Metals & Marine Substances cast up in the Firth , or found upon the Coast thereof , and an Account of the odd Currents and Leakies , as they are called , in the Upper Part of the said Firth .

THE Second Book containeth the other Supplements of the first Volume in it , there is an Account of the most useful and rare Plants discovered since the Printing of the First Volume ; as also , of the Animals Terrestrial and Aquatic discovered in other Parts of the Countrey , and a more particular Account of the Minerals and Metals found in the Countrey , especially of the Figured Stones and Petrifications since the Printing of the First Volume , and the Errors of the First Volume are Corrected , and the Objections of some Learn'd Men are Answered , and considerable Additions are made to the other Treatises of the First Volume .

THIS Second Volume is to be done with the same Letter , and upon the same Paper this Proposal is done on .

THE First and Second of these Essays are Printed already in the same Letter , these Proposals are done on ; and shall be delivered in Sheets without the Cuts to the Subscribers for both the Volumes , upon Payment of the first Moyety , being 20 Shillings Sterl .

AND the Second Volume with the Cuts both of the Prodromus and all the Essays , shall be delivered to the Subscribers for both Volumes upon the payment of the other Moyety , being 20 Shillings Sterl . in November next .

AND these who Subscribe only for the Second Volume of the Prodromus and the Four Essays at the Rate of Thirty Shillings Sterl . shall upon the Payment of Ten Shillings have the First Two Essays already Printed , without the Cuts , delivered to them presently , and the Second Volume with the other Two Essays , and all the Cuts , for the Payment of 20 Shillings Sterl . more , in November next .

So soon as there are Subscriptions and Money advanced for an Hundred Copies of both the Volumes , in South-Britain , the Printer James Watson will begin to Print the Second Volume of the Prodromus .

THERE will be Obligatory Receipts for delivery of the Books , with the Cuts , in Sheets , got at the Author's Lodgings , and at Mr. David Freebairn and Mr. Robert Freebairn their Shops at Edinburgh .