27^ ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



" pomiferis. Agrlcolis deteflabills iq 

 ** agris fecalinis (why not alfo triticeis?) 

 ** famus idem etiam facit, abforbendo 

 " humidum fligmads." So the fligniata 

 mufl neither be wetted nor dried. But 

 this is fully anfwered abore. Non caufa 

 pro caufa is here very frequent. 



29. The fixtb argument, which the 

 fexuaiifts triumph in as a demonaration 

 of their doarine, is taken from the cul- 

 ture of the palm-tree. " Inftar omnium 

 •• argumentorum efle poteft (fays J. Gef- 

 •* nerus *j modus quo foecundatio palmae 

 *• dadylifer^, ad obtiiiendos dadylorum 

 *' fruclus matures, apud Perfas inftitui- 

 *' tur, a cl. Kasmpfero, in his locis, an- 

 ** notatus." It would be too long to 

 tranfcribe all that modern authors have 

 faid concerning this tree. The reader 

 may, ifhepleafes, confult John Leo f , 

 Profper Alpmus +, Hadgi Mullapha Aga 11, 



Engsl- 



♦ Di/Tert. p. 8;. 



t Harris co!le<fl. vol. i. p. 3^7. : 



t Depl. Aeg p. 24 



G T. Juft. p 69. 



