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" same trees ; and after as accurate a 

 " secreting and comparison as we were 

 " enabled to make, we could not disco- 

 " ver any difference either in the colour 

 " or texture :" but certainly there is no- 

 thing UNCOMMON in such an appearance; 

 for it could not he otherwise, unless the com- 

 position had suspended the common ope- 

 rations of nature, and introduced in their 

 stead, methods of its own. In short, the 

 above, with other previous and subsequent 

 remarks, furnish abundant proof of our 

 first position, viz. that the reporters were 

 by no means conversant with the subject; 

 and hence, with the best possible inten- 

 tions, they have been led to impute ef- 

 fects to wrong causes ; consequently the 

 operations of nature are degraded, in 

 proportion as the merits of the composi- 

 tion are exalted. 



For the truth of the above observa- 

 tions, we seriously appeal to the experi- 



