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fully supports the facts and opinions I had formerly- 

 promulgated. These are now generally agreed to be 

 correct ; though at first many had doubts respecting 

 them. Every opportunity I have had, has fully con- 

 firmed what I have asserted. I never attempted to 

 account for this wonderful occurrence in the course of 

 natural operations. Theories as to plants, and the ne- 

 cessity of changes, are to be found in celebrated writers. 

 Practical and intelligent farmers find them indispensa- 

 ble. The great use of the iacts concerning changes 

 of timber, is, to incite us, in our agricultural pursuits, 

 to regard the phenomena, which the beneficent Cre- 

 ator exhibits, in the grand scenery of nature, for our 

 instruction. The propensities evidenced in natural 

 products, to changes and successions on a great and 

 extensive scale, point out, most evidently to us, the 

 wisdom of imitations in our more contracted con- 

 cerns ; by attending to the salutary practice of changes 

 and rotations of crops. It was with a view to their 

 exemplary and practical advantages, that I gave, at 

 first, and now repeat, the information, with which I 

 troubled the society. 



Your's, very sincerely, 



Richard Peters 

 Dr. James Mease. 



