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every animal, would appear to have a predilection for 

 one mode of temperature more than another. 



Philadelphia, May 6th, 

 1801. 



NOTES ON THE PRECEDING PATER. BY THE 



EDITOR. 



Note 1. Page 68. We have many instances of 

 the like change induced in vegetables by climate. 

 Thus the Quince-tree (Pyrus Cydonia) drops its 

 leaves in the northern countries of Europe, but be- 

 comes an evergreen when it is transplanted to the south 

 of France, the island of Minorca, and other southern 

 climates (See Elements of Botany : or Outlines of the 

 Natural History of Vegetables. Part First, p. 66. 

 Philadelphia : 1803). It appears from Father Lou- 

 reiro's Flora Cochinchinensis, that the Common Sas- 

 safras (Laurus Sassafras), and other vegetables that 

 are natives of Cochinchina, and of Pennsylvania, and 

 other parts of North- America, are evergreens in the 

 former country, while in the latter they always drop 

 their leaves in the fall and winter. 



Note 2. Page 69. It is cultivated on the banks 

 of the Weser, and in Hungary. It succeeds very 

 well in Spain, and has been cultivated, for ages, in 

 the neighbourhood of Verona, in Naples, &.c. 



