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fix grains; whereas in thirteen days more, it only loft 

 fourteen grains. 



If fuch be the progrefs of nature, we may natu- 

 rally conclude this efFed is increafed by the culinary 

 procefs. A potatoe that weighed 2 ounces, 7 dwts. 

 and 5 grains, in its natural ftate, after being roafted 

 only weighed i ounce, 5 dwts. another before being 

 put into water weighed 2 ounces, 5 dwts. and 6 

 grains, but immediately after being boiled, had loft 

 54 grains. , 



Left you fhould fear I am entering uponafyftcm 

 of cookery, I abruptly conclude. 



Sir, 



Your obedient fervant, 



JOHN HOLT. 



Waltony near Liverpool^ 

 Nov. i/, 1790. 



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