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that fubje^t, addreflcd by the CommlfTionf rs of the 



Land Revenue to the Chairman of their Quarter- 



feflTions; which anfwers, having been drawn up from 



the bed information that could be obtained from 



fcveral principal timber merchants, as well as from 



the obfervations which were communicated to me 



by fome of the mod intelligent gentlemen of this 



county, may, I think, be fairly deemed, though 



-perhaps not the univerfal, yet the general opinion 



of thofe here, who are moft and bcft informed 



upon the flibj«a ' ''^ '' =■' ' ''^^ 



-jmtjab 3d Jon- 



In the ad Number of the fecond volume of Dr. 

 Anderfon's periodical publication, called the Bee, 

 yovi have, I make no doubt, fcen a new and eafy 

 method of forcing early potatoes, very accurately 

 defcribed by the Doctor, as alfo in the 8th No. of 

 the jd volume of the fame entertaining and ufeful 

 performance, the account which I gave him of my 

 accidental difcovery of the mode of obtaining them 

 in the moft early part of the fpring. To that account, 

 whether it fhall ferve only for amufement, or may 

 eventually be of any public benefit, I hope I may 

 be allowed to add, that in order to fee whether the 

 Potatoes, produced as therein mentioned, had aU 

 the properties of thofe growing in the regular and 

 ordinary courfe, and would reproduce as good a 



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