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same size as my figure xiil. Plate VI; the figure in p. 128 
is a copy of my figure xvii. Plate VJ; and the examples at 
both places are mine, as well as the constructions; but as 
my examples ard constructions are placed at different pages, 
and my figures are given in plates, the coincidence, at first 
sight, is not so obyious as it would have been had my work 
been printed i in the manner of Mr. Bonnycastle’ 3. 
From the specimens already given, the truth of my asser- 
tions cannot be doubted ; for it would baffle all the mathe- 
matical laws of chance to produce, from fortuitous circum- 
stances, such a coincidence as I have pointed out: but as 
this subject will be more amply discussed elsewhere, I shall 
desist from troubling you with any more remarks ; and hope, 
as it is a mere act of justice to myself, that your readers 
will excuse me for having occupied any part of your valuable 
work with matter which has no tendency either to instruc- 
tion or entertainment. 
‘ 
; I am, sir, 
No. 18, Norfolk-street, Your most obedient servant, 
Fitzroy square, : 
January 12, 1807. Tuomas KEITH. 
LII. On the Cultivation of the Poppy. By T. Cocan, 
M. 
Aursovcu the ardour with which the British nation pur- 
sues whatever promises to be of public utility, is perhaps un- 
equalled by any other, and certainly exceeded by none; vet 
there is one subject which has hitherto been permitted to 
escape our attention, and in which several nations upon the 
continent can not only boast of their superior policy, but 
are already enjoying considerable advantages from it; I mean 
the cultivation of the poppy to a great extent for tlie benefit 
of its oil, as an article of food, and for other useful purposes. 
~ It will doubtless be remarked, that we ought not to ascribe 
the neglect of it as an article of food to inattention altoge- 
ther, but to a superior caution, as the narcotic quality of 
* From Letters and Pupers of the Bath Agricultural Society, vol. x. 
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