162 on delays in the court of Sefsion. Oct. 2. 
ON THE DELAYS INCIDENT TO THE COURT 
Or SESssION. 
To the Lord President of the Court of Sefsione 
LETTER Iv. 
My Lorp, 
Tr might be too violent a change to fhorten the in- 
ducie or days of citation, and alter the méde of bring- 
ing an action into court by tabling, calling, outgiv= 
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that it ever can be domesticated, and therefore we are not to look for 
eny improved varieties of this, more than of other wild animals. 
The same mode might be taken to improve the wool of the 
vicuna, a small species of the camel tribe, which affords the fine 
wool called laine de vigogne, or vigonia wool, which also abounds 
with coarse hairs like that of the beaver; and as this animal can easily 
be domesticated, and is known to live in the cold climate of Aranjuez 
in Spain, could its fleece be once purified from the hairs that now de- 
base it, that creature might in time become a valuable addition to 
the stock of domestic animals in Europe. 
This mode of improvement may be applied to vegetables, as well as 
to animals; with great benefit to the public, and advantage to indivi- 
duals. Having observed that the different plants of the sarte Kinds of 
kidney beans vary from each other exceedingly, in regard to their pro- 
lificacy, I was very desizous of saving some seeds this season from some 
of the most and of the least prolific plants in the same bed, to sow 
them apart, and observe the result ; but unfortunately, they were gas 
thered without my knowledge, so as to mar the experiment for a year. 
Having mentioned this circumstance, with regret; to a very attentive 
gardener, he afsured me that the same circumstance had struck him 
long ago, and that he had tried the experiment, and said it neven 
failed that the seeds produced from the most prolific plants always af- 
ferded by much the most abundant crop, though there was even a- 
mong these a considerable diversity in particular plants; but by & 
