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to their refpeclive capacities, or to reward 

 them in any other manner. I found that 

 the people of diftin<ftion, in general here, 

 had a much greater tafte for natural hifi.ory 

 and other parts of literature, than in the 

 Englifh colonies, where it was every body's 

 fole care and employment to fcrape a for- 

 tune together, and where the fciences were 

 held in univerfal contempt.* It was ftill 

 A 4 complained 



* It feems Mr. Kalm has forgotten his own aiTertions In 

 the firft volume. Dr. C 'olden , Dr. Franklin, and Mr. Bartram, 

 have been the great promoters and inveftigators of nature in 

 this country; and how would the inhabitants of Old Etrg- 

 /tfWhave gotten the fine collections of ^crth- American trees, 

 fhrubs, and plants, which grow at prefent almoft in every 

 garden, and are as if it were naturalised in Old England, 

 had they not been afliiled by their friends, and by the 

 curious in North-America. One need only calt an eye on 

 Dr. Linnteus's new edition of his Syftema, and ttye repeated 

 mention of Dr. Garden, in order to be convinced that the 

 Englijh in America have contributed a greater fnare towards 

 promoting natural hiftory, than any nation lender heaven, 

 and certainly more than the French, though their learned 

 men are often handfomely petitioned by their great Monarque: 

 on the other hand \htEnglijh (ludy that Branch of know- 

 ledge, from the fole motive of its utility, and the plea- 

 fure it affords to a thinking being, without any of thofe 

 mercenary views, held forth to the learned of other 

 countries. And as to the other parts of literature, the Englijh 

 vs\ America zxo. undoubtedly fuperior to ihs French in. Canada, 

 witnefs the many ufeful inftitutions, colleges, and fchools 

 founded in the Englijh colonies \4 'North-Amenca, and fo 

 many very confiderable libraries now ere&ing in this 

 country, which contain fuch a Choice of ufeful and curious 

 books, as were very little known in Canada, before it fell 

 into the hands of the Englffi-* hot to mention the produc- 

 tions of original genius written by Americans bo:n. F. 



