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cure for smuggling, and that is to moderate the duties, so as to ie 
the hope of gain not to be such as to counterbalance the lofs likely to 
be incurred. This, and nothing else will ever put a stop to it. 
To CoRRESPONDENTS. 
Taz favour of Emendator is received. After returning thanks to 
this correspondent for the obliging manner in which he writes, the 
editor afsures him that his hints fhall hdve all dué attention bestow- 
ed upon them; though he -does not say that all the emendations he 
proposes will be adopted. Where the public is concérned which con- 
sists of persons of tastes infinitely varied, it is impofsible that the 
wifhes of any one can be entirely gratified, because attention must be 
paid to the wifhes of others. 
Philomanthes withes, for example, that mathematical questions 
fhould make a considerable part of the work, in which he is supported 
by the intelligent 
Pappus, whose letter is hereby acknowledged, and which will be 
laid before the public when room can be spared for it. 
Euphranor complains that too great a proportion of the work is ap- 
propriated to serious subjects, especially those respecting agriculture, 
So that too little room is left for tales and entertaining anecdotes; 
while loudly calls for more on the subject of 
agriculture : ‘You fhould teach us,!says he, how to sow, how to reap, 
how to manure our ground; so as to derive the greatest profit from it 
and leave all light summer reading to other trifling performances ;’* 
without seeming to advert that the Editor would thus deviate entirély 
from the plan he proposed to the public at the commencement of his 
work, to which, as in duty bound, he has ever endeavoured as much as 
pofsible to adhere. 
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