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there were not lefs than five or £\yL dIfFerent fpecles, 

 mod of them totally different, not only from the pa- 

 rent flocks, from which the feeds were obtained, but 

 alfo from every other fpecies I had ever feen, or 

 have to this hour. They were of different colours, 

 figures, and texture. Some a fmooth yellowifh 

 white, fome a dufky brown, fome a reddifh brown, 

 fome had a rough fkin, fome fmooth, fome diflinft 

 fingle bulbs of a regular fhape, others a congeries of 

 bulbs from 6 to lo or 12, connected together by a 

 kind of neck, compofing a mafs, fometimes nearly 

 as big as a half-peck meafure. But there was one 

 fpecies which far exceeded all the refl in beauty; 

 many of them were as big as a goofe*s egg, a fine 

 clear fmooth fkin of a yellowifh white, finely pounced 

 with fmall crimfon fpots, the complexion beautiful, 

 and the fubflance as good as I ever tafled. 



The bulbs, which produced the feeds of which 

 thefe varieties were obtained, were of two very dif- 

 ferent fpecies, but no more than two. One was an 

 oblong white potatoe of no very common fhape. 

 Many of them were gibbous at each end, conne6led 

 by a part much fmaller in the middle, a good fa- 

 mily potatoe. The other was of a brownifh red 

 colour, finely marbled on the infide with a crimfon 

 purple ; a very fine juicy potatoe, much in ufe in 

 this country for feeding hogs, but little valued for 



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