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are generally the moft valuable ; and on the con- 
trary, when a very ftrong Tafte is alfoa very 
difagreeable one; or in the fame Manner, when the 
{trong Smell of a Plant has alfo fomething heavy, 
difagreeable, and overpowering in it; there is Mif- 
chief in the Herb, rather than any ufeful Quality. 
The poifonous Plants of this Country are very 
few, but they are for the moft Part characteris’d 
after this Manner: So that they are known as it 
were at Sight, or by the firft Offer of a Trial. 
_ Thus we fee how very little can be the Danger 
of inquiring farther into the Virtues of our own 
Plants, by Experiments; and how ufeful fuch an 
Inquiry may be to Mankind is fufficiently prov- 
ed by the Matter of the preceeding Volume. | _ 
What I have here written, is with Intent to en- — 
courage fome who have Opportunities to make 
the Trial; and for my own Part, I fhall not be 
wanting. 
Way, I am pleafed to fee makes no inconfiderable 
Addition to the prefent Publication; what I hall 
~ difcover farther, or learn from the Experience of 
others, fhall have its Place in the fucceeding Edi- 
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