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ïf to each plant are added it's elementary har- 

 monies, fuch as thofe of the feafon when it ap- 

 pears ; of the foil and fituation in which it vege- 

 tates j the effects of the dews, and of the reflexes 

 of the light on it's foliage ; the movements which 

 it undergoes from the action of the winds ; it's 

 contrails and confonances with other plants, and 

 with the quadrupeds, the birds, and the infects, 

 which are peculiar to it ; and you will perceive a 

 delightful concert formed all around, the harmo- 

 nies of which are {till unknown to us. It is only, 

 however, by purfuing this track, that we fhall be 

 enabled to obtain a glimpfe of the immenfe and 

 magnificent edifice of Nature. I would earneftly 

 intreat Naturalifts, perfons fond of gardening, 

 Painters, nay, Poets likewife, thus to profecute 

 their ftudies, and to make frequent draughts from 

 this perennial fpring of tafte and of delight. They 

 will behold new worlds anting into view, and, 

 without removing from their own Horizon, 

 they will make difcoveries infinitely more curious 

 than thofe which are contained in our books and 

 cabinets, where the produdions of the Univerfe 

 are frittered away, and disjoined, in the petty 

 drawers of our mechanical fyftems, 



I know not, at prefent, what name I ought to 

 give to the conformities which thofe particular 

 concerts have with Man. Certain it undoubtedly 



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