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/hillings I paid the makfter for drying, Sec, which 

 made the expence about a guinea, whereby at lead: 

 three or four were faved. From this account it 

 appears, that a fmutty crop is not an evil of fuch in- 

 plerable magnitude as hath been generally thought. 



In the conditions of the premium, it feems, arc 

 involved, what is impradicable and impofllble. In 

 the above account the writer flatters himfelf, that he 

 has thrown as much light upon the fubjecl as is 

 difcoverabie by human means, and begs leave to 

 fubmit it to the candid confideration of the honour- 

 able Society, whether fuch an inveftigatioi) merits 

 their approbation and encouragement or not. 



Premiums offered for preventing evils which ori- 

 ginate from intemperate feafons and deflroying 

 blights, may excite invention, artifice, cunning, 

 impofture, and deception, but can never extend the 

 boundary, or expand the circle of human know- 

 ledge, or human power. He, and He only, who 

 can repel the malignant blafts of the Eaft, fraught 

 with myriads of confuming infeds, which originate 

 from what and where none but Omnifcience knows, 

 and fubftitute the foft, healing, balmy zephyrs of 

 the Weft, can reward the labours of the induftrious 

 hufbandman with plenty and happinefs! 



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