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Gall loudly upon us, to improve that boun- 

 ty to the utmost: — therefore the inquir}^ 

 is indeed important, J f here shall we find 

 the much needed instruction ? 



It is now many years since the subject 

 struck my mind, in the manner above 

 stated ; the consequence of which was, 

 that books were resorted to in the first 

 place ; — there, however, I experienced 

 nothing but perplexity and disappoint- 

 ment; as scarcely any two of them a- 

 greed in one opinion. However, it soon 

 was evident that little assistance was to 

 be expected from that quarter, as no wri- 

 ter, that fell in my wa}^ seemed to have 

 studied the subject sufficiently to assign 

 a satisfactory reason for his own practice. 

 From books I naturally turned to men, 

 (woodmen,) and with much the same sort 

 of success. Their practice, it is true, did 

 not materially contradict each other; 

 but to me, at least, it seemed that they 

 were all at variance with Reason and I^a- 



