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The fineft fpecies of corn, therefore, which is 

 wheat, might be referred to Sicily, where, in fad, 

 they pretend it was originally found. Fable has 

 immortalized this difcovery, by making that ifland 

 the fcene of the amours of Ceres ; as well as the 

 birth of Bacchus, in the Ifle of Naxos, becaufe of 

 the beauty of it's vines. This much is certain, 

 that corn is no where indigenous but in Sicily, if, 

 however, it (till re-perpetuates itfelf there fponta- 

 neoufly, as the Ancients affirm. 



After having determined in the fame manner, 

 the other human accommodations of the graffes to 

 different lltuations of ground, we might examine 

 the graffes which exhibit marked relations to our 

 domeflic animals, fuch as the ox, the horfe, the 

 fheep, the dog. We might characterize them by 

 the names of thefe animals. We fhould have the 

 gramen bovinum, equinum y ovinum, caninum. The 

 different fpecies of each of thefe genera, might af- 

 terwards be diftinguifhed by the names of the 

 different places where they are found by the fe- 

 veral animals ; on the banks of rivers, among 

 rocks, on fands, on mountains ; fo that by the 

 addition of the epithets, fluviatUe, faxatile, arena- 

 fum, moniamim, you might fupply, in two words, 

 all the verbofe phrafeology of our botanical com- 

 pofitions. 



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