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yered the charatteriftic properties of this plant, as 
above defcribed, and in what its chief ufe and value 
confifts, or have at leaft any where publithed the fame; 
it is at this time, perhaps, worthy of remark, that 
if at Cullen-Houfe (the feat of the Earl of Fintater, 
in Bamffhire, near the northern extremity of Great- 
Britain, and more than fix degrees north of us) they 
can grow on an acre of land, and preferve through 
their intenfely-fevere winters, food fufficient for a 
month’s confumption of an hundred and forty fheep, 
during the critical fpring feafon; fuch being the 
eafe, conformably to experiments conftantly carried 
on here, we are fomehow, and whatever be the 
caule, farther fouth of our neighbours, in point of im- 
provement, than, fpecifically, Englifhmen ought to 
confider themfelves, 
That a frigid atmofphere may operate kindly in 
ftrengthening the vafcular fy{tem, and brightening 
the human intelleé&t, it may be neceffary to allow; 
but that our northern friends, fix degrees nearer 
the pole, fhould thence give us the go-by in matters 
of vegetation, and furnifhing provifions for the table, 
ought not perhaps to be fo reconcileable to Englifh 
feelings; nor is it in any wife fanétioned by the 
venerable Fabulift, in his inftance of the fun and 
north wind contending for victory. 
Since the-reports before-mentioned were made to 
the Society of Arts, &c. no interefting obfervations 
@r material improvements have taken place here, el- 
ther 
