ADVERTISEMENT. 



raifed by the planters in the Wejl Indies : while the accounts of the 

 Mango/ion and Bread Fruit frees, with directions for conveying feeds 

 and plants from the moft diftant parts of the globe in a ftate of 

 vegetation, were publifhed with a view to introduce thofe, and many 

 other plants into our own fettlements, where they might become 

 beneficial to the public for the purpofes of medicine, agriculture and 

 commerce. And his active mind was conftantly employed in de- 

 viling means for promoting the welfare of fociety, until the time of 

 his death, which happened on the 15th of October, 1776. 



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