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over the very Nature of their countries. AlTaredly, 

 if I entertained a wifh to have my name perpe- 

 tuated, I would much rather have it affixed to a 

 fruit in France, than to an ifland in America. 

 The People, in the feafon of that fruit, would recal 

 my memory with tokens of refped:. My name, 

 preferved in the balkets of the peafantry, would 

 endure longer, than if it were engraved on columns 

 of marble. I know of no monument, in the noble 

 family of Montmorenci^ more durable, and more en» 

 deared to the People, than the cherry which bears 

 it*s name. The Good-Henry, otherwife Japathum^ 

 which grows without culture in the midft of our 

 plains, will confer a more lading duration on the 

 memory of Henry IV. than the ilatue of bronze 

 placed on the Pont-Neuf, though proteded by an 

 iron rail and a guard of foldiers. • If the feeds, and 

 the heifers, which Louis XV. by a natural move- 

 ment of humanity, fent to the Ifland of Taiti, 

 (hould happen to multiply there, they will preferve 

 his memory much longer, and render it much 

 dearer, among the Nations of the South-Sea, than 

 the pitiful pyramid of bricks, which the fawning 

 Academicians attempted to rear in honor-r of him 

 at Quito, and, perhaps, than the ftatues ereéted ta 

 him in the heart of his own kingdom. 



The benefit of a ufeful plant is, in my opinion, 

 ojae of the moft important fervicçs, which a citizen 



s 2i can 



