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attra€t the attention of our planters: their ftaples, 
rice, indigo, and tobacco, will forbid it. + 
1 obferve, with fingular fatisfaction, the many 
difcoveries and improvements of the prefent gene- 
ration. This, Sir, is an age of fcience—an epoch 
of great events It will ftand as fuch on the future 
records of hiftory, when the veil of prejudice fhall 
be drawn afide , and the mirror of truth introduced. 
By the fplendour of its {pirit and refearches; by 
the magnitude of revolutions now crimfoning the 
world with blood ; the latter end of the eighteenth 
century will aftonifh and confound fucceeding ages. 
I fhall write to you again. At prefent I am 
obliged to leave: off, to forward the laft propanene 
for my, journey weftward. 
I beg you, good Sir, to believe me imprefled 
with fentiments of efteem towards you ; and that 
lam 
, Your « dliged 
and moft obedient fervant, 
; G. TURNER. 
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