506 Experiments &9 Obfervations, &c. 
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All the preceding conclufions apply folely to 
plants: growing on dry land: for it is evident, 
from | a ‘fight confideration of the fubjeét, that 
the economy ‘of aquatic vegetables confifts of a 
clafs of habits of a very. different nature 5. which 
cannot be rightly , underftood, ‘until they ‘be 
inveftigated by 2 a courfe of experiments. | 
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An Aten to “explain the’ Nature and: Orrark 
of the, Avctent CaRVED ‘Prtiars and Osetisxs, 
now ati in Great Britain. i By Mr, Thomas 
o) BarRit. ) : . og 343 
) huey READ DECEMBER 45 iemane 
- NTIQUARIANS are deal accufed of a 
fuperftitious devotion to the objeéts of 
their refearch. ‘The prefent eflay will, at leaft, 
be freed from this imputation; for I intend to 
fhew, that, many ., ftone monuments in this coun; 
try, have been referred to a. period too remote, 
by thofe who have hitherto examined them. en 
Some rude maffes of ftone are, indeed, to be 
feen, particularly on the coafts of Scotland, 
which were probably erected immediately oher 
battles 
