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feflion. In the mean time foils might be fent to fome fkilful 

 perfons in the capital by country gentlemen, who would thus 

 be enabled to afcertain and appreciate the advantages attending 

 fuch refearches, and enlighten and encourage their more ignorant 

 and diffident neighbours. Many of them might perhaps them- 

 felves feel a tafte for occupations of this nature, occupations which 

 not only fully fuffice to fill up the many vacant hours and days 

 which the folitude of a country life muft frequently leave them, 

 but are moreover fweetened by the pleafing recolledion, that of 

 all others they tend moft diredly to the general happinefs of 

 mankind. 



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