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Article XIV, 

 On the Ufe of Plaijler of Paris as a Manure. 



[By J. KiRKPATRicK, cfqj to the Secretary.] 



St. CrofSy JJle of Wight y Dec. 2, 1789. 

 Sir, 



T Have not hid the pleafure to addrcfs myfelf to 

 ^ you for fome time. It was my intention before 

 this (agreeably to the defirc of the Society) to have 

 collected fome particulars of the agriculture of this 

 ifland, but my ill ftate of health prevented me ; 

 and for which, being advifed to take a voyage at 

 fea, curiofity led me to vifit the United States of 

 America; great part of the Northern provinces, 

 and Canada, I have therefore travelled through this 

 fummer; and, among other objeds which engaged 

 my attention, agriculture was not forgotten. The 

 letter, of which you have a copy inclofed, I met 

 with at Philadelphia ; the fubjedl ftruck me at the 

 time of reading it as worthy of attention, and more 

 fo after I had feen fome land on which the plan re- 

 commended had been tried. The cheapnefs and 

 efficacy of the Plaifter of Paris makes it much ufed 

 in the States i and if, by the recommendation of the 

 Society, any experiments are made, and it is found 

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