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Pla?its brought into our Stoves with fo 

 much Exp^nce^ and kept there with fo 



uch PainSy may fill , the Ej 



^mpty Wonder : But it would he 

 to the Honour of the Pojfejfor of th 

 have fomid out the Vfe of 



wt 



Herb at Homey thajz to have enriched 



our Country with an hundred of the- 



others* Nay^ i7i the Eye of Reafon 

 ojientatious Study is rather a Reproach 

 Why fjould he^ who has not yet inform- 

 ed himfelf thoroughly of the Nature 

 the fneanejl Herb which grows in the 



next Ditch y ranfac the Earth for fo- 

 reign TVondersf Does he not fall 



der the fame Reproach with the Gene- 

 rality of thofey who travel for their Im- 

 provement ^ while they are ignorant of 

 all they left at Home-y and who are 

 ridiculous in their Inquiries concerning 

 the Laws and Government of other 



Countries y while they are not able to 

 give a fatisfaBojy Anfwer to a77y ^ue-- 



w. 



hich regards their own ? 



I have faid thus much to obviate the 



of thofe to whom an Inquiry 



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