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One fingle grain of wheat produced in one 

 feafon, in weight forty-feven pounds, 

 in meafure 3^ pecks, 

 in number 5 70,000-fold ! 



What an aftonifhing increafe ! What a power of 

 fecundity I What an incredible divifibility, almoft 

 nd in jinitum, are all hereby laid open ! 



I am now inclined to believe, after this difco- 

 very, it may be found, that wheat may be pro. 

 duced from a fibre of the root, as well as from a 

 plant. I am not a farmer ; I never had the di- 

 rection of a plough ; but I will make the experi- 

 ment, to try what is the fmalleft portion of a plant 

 of wheat that can be made to produce grain. 



Mr. Miller, after having made the difcovery, 

 was fatisfkd with publifhing it; but I promife 

 you, if I am fo happy as to make any new difco- 

 very upon the fubject, I will not (like him) leave 

 it to others to point out how, or in what manner, 

 it can be applied to publick utility. 



But I forget myfelf. I am giving up facts, and 

 following conjectures. I will therefore return to 

 the original intention of my letter, which is, to 

 excite the attention of your Society to this won- 

 derful 



