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sign of a Botanic Garden for the reception and cultivation of 

 American vegetables, as well as exotics, was the celebrated John 

 Bartram, mentioned in a former note. His establisliment, though 

 small, and scarcely worthy of the name when compared with those 

 of Europe, was respectable, considering the situation of tlie pro- 

 prietor, and is now probably the best in our countiy. Those 

 formed and supported by the French government, though calcu- 

 lated to answer the purposes intended, were nlso far from being 

 regular or complete botanical gardens. Nothing that dcscncs thi* 

 character has yet been established in America. It is hoped the 

 plan now in execution by professor Hosack, of Columbia college, 

 will be fostered by the public, and succeed better than any 

 former attempts. 



Note (EE), p. 353. — It has been made a question whetlier the 

 inoculation of the small-pox. ought to be considered as a blessing 

 or an evil to society. Some have supposed that its effect has been 

 to keep the disease more steadily alive, and more extensively dif- 

 fused} and thus, on the whole, that it has produced an injury 

 rather than a benefit. Professor Waterhouse, of Massachusetts, 

 in a late publication recommending the substitution of ^h^ low- 

 PoXy makes the following statement : — " No less than forty mil- 

 lions of people die of the small-pox eveiy century. The Eu- 

 ropeans have carried the small-pox over the globe. The Danes 

 carried it to Greenland, and the Spaniards to South America, where 

 one hundred tliousand perished witli it in the single province 

 of Quito. When the annual number of births in London was 

 sixteen thousand two hundred and ninety-one, the number who 

 liieJ with the small-pox was two thousand five hundred and 

 fifty-four, and still greater in some other large cities of Europe. 

 A greater munber have died of the small-pox since the introduc- 

 tion of its inoculation than before it, that practice being the 

 means of keeping it always in large cities," 



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