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as yet one perfon who could bring any thing Hke a 

 valid objeftion againfl this, but I have found very 

 few who are difpofed to adopt it; mofl: perfons indeed 

 fhew an invincible reluftance to admit it, though they 

 can find no reafon why they fliould not ; this is, to 

 me, an objeft of no importance, and I am amufed at 

 the perplexity it occafions. I had lately a letter 

 from Sir Joseph Banks on the fubjeft, who went 

 farther than mofl others have done, and propofed 

 one objedlion, which, when examined, chances to 

 turn out to be one of the ftrongeft arguments that 

 could be produced in proof of it. Such fpeculative 

 opinions may aiford a little amufement, but I con- 

 fider them as of no importance ; it is the pradical 

 part of that treatife alone, which (hews how mofs 

 can be converted into a produftive foil at fmall ex- 

 pence, that I confider as of any value.* 



You may perhaps have heard by fome accident 

 that I difcontinued the publication of the Bee at the 

 end of the lafl year 1793, owing to tardy payments. 

 The man *****, at ***^*^i find has been little 

 better than a fwindler,'as he ordered about 50I. worth 

 of them, which he has fold, and not paid me one 

 farthing, and I learn it is in vain to look for it. I 

 (hall in future keep myfelf free from every mercan- 



• This knowledge is undoubtedly of much value, and the treatife 

 alluded to, coining from fuch a hand, will of courfe be deemed worthy 

 of proportionate attention. Editor. 



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