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I have (hewn, that mod foreign nations, 

 and efpecially the Cbincfe, live for the greatefl 

 part on -fruit?, roots, and plants, and that they 

 cultivate fuch plants in their marines, as 

 will not fucceed in other places : we might alfo 

 find fufficient provifion among our own fpon- 

 taneous plants. The Cbhefe initrucl: their 

 children in a religion both irrational and pa- 

 gan, yet the principal objecls of their educa- 

 tion, are morality and ceconomy. 



In fome places I have taken notice of things 

 not uncommon in Swedc?i* } which are how- 

 ever worthy of remark, becaufe they are found 

 in fuch diftant climates, where every thing elfe 

 is different : from hence we might, at leaf! 

 draw fome ufeful concluficns. 



. We are ufed to afk what a thing is good 

 for? And often rafhly think, that alone ufe- 

 ful, which ferves for medicine, cloaths, and 

 food : as if the eye had no claim to its gratifi- 

 cations, and as if what is agreeable was not 

 connected with what is ufeful. The drefles 



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