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vtneyards. I am apprîzed that the prototype of aîl thefe 

 forts was the garden of Eden-, but as that Paradfe was 

 a good deaî larger than any ive read of afterwardsy being 

 inclofed by the rivers Pifon, Giho?iy Uiddekel, and Ruphrates, 

 as every tree that was pleajant to the fight and good for 

 food grew in it, and as two other trees were likewife found 

 therey of which not a Jlip or fucker remains, it does not 

 beîong to the prefent difcufjlon. After the f ail no 7nan living 

 was fiiffered to enter into the garden ; and the poverty and 

 7ieceJJîties of oiir frfl anceflors hardly allowed them time to 

 make improvements on their eftates in imitation of it, fup~ 

 pofng any plan had been prefeyjed. A cottage and a Jlip 

 of ground for a cabbage and a goofeberry-bujhy fuch as we 

 fee by the Jide of a common, were in ail probability the 

 earliejî feats and gardens : a well and bucket fucceeded to 

 the Pifon and Euphrates. As fettlements increafed, the 

 or char d and the vîneyard followed', and the earliejî princes 

 of îribes pojfejj'ed jujî the necejfarics of a modem far?ner. 



Matters, we may well believe, remained long in this fitua* 



tion ', and thoiigh the gêner ality oj ?nankind form their ideas 



from the import of words in their own âge, we hâve no 



reafon to think that for many centuries the term garden 



implied more than a kitchen-garden or or char d, When a 



Frenchman 



