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fuading them to adopt the fame fentiments ; I there- 

 fore thought it might be ufeful to publifh the re- 

 flexions which I made in reading this feducing 

 Treatif<;. 



I fubmit them to you. Sir, as to one of the moft 

 competent judges, engaged, both by ftation and 

 natural abilities, in every thing that tends to the en- 

 riching your country, and the welfare of your fel- 

 low-citizens ; profoundly verfed in all the branches 

 of CEconomics, Agriculture, and Phyfic^^ you will 

 be equally capable of difcufling the obje6bions of 

 M. LiNGUET againft the ufe of Bread, and my ob- 

 fervations upon them ; your decifion will certainly 

 have very great weight in the fcientific world. 



Monfieur Linguet affirms, that the culture pf 

 bread-corn is prejudicial, and that bread is an un- 

 wholefome food, Jhe latter of thefe principles 

 only can be properly confidered in a medicinal 

 view. However, I mufl be permitted to examine 

 the firfl alfoj fince it would be of very little impor- 

 tance to defend the ufe of bread, if the culture pf 

 the grain which produces it be prejudicial. 



It is a certain fad that, in fome countries, one 

 ^rpent of land, fown with corn, yields lefs than 



the 



