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' cherries, peaches, apricots, and all the other 

 ' fine fruits of our gardens, are natives of other 

 ' diftant countries, and were utterly unknown to 

 ' our anceflprs ; — that clover, cabbage, turnips, 



* with almofl all the numerous train of garden roots, 

 ' were only of late introduced into Britain, where 



* they are now grown in greater perfeftion than on 

 ' any other part of the globe; — that horfes, cows, 

 ' and flieep, were not known in America before the 

 ' Europeans fettled there. In fliort, the benefits 

 ' that fociety hath reaped from judicioufly tranf- 

 ' planting the animals and vegetables of one country 

 « into another that may (land in need of them, are 



* fo many and great as might £11 whole volumes 

 ' barely to enumerate, and ought to ferve as a ftrong 

 ' incitement in us to attempt farther improvements; 



* and to flrengthen us in the belief, that, fubjeft to 

 ' our continual improvement or debafement, the 

 ' great Author of Nature has caufed the fame num- 

 ' berlefs varieties in the animal as in the vegetable 



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' world. And therefore I cannot give up my opinion 

 ' that by right judgment in crolling, the choicefl ani- 

 ' mals remain to be produced, uniting all the good 

 ' qualities for which they are w^anted, with the 

 ' fame fuccefs as I have myfelf produced fome of 

 ' the mofl: beautiful flowers and choicefl fruits from 

 ' feed. I will not apologize for troubling your lord- 

 ' (hip fo long with niy ideas on this ufcful and im- 



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