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The former depend upon the practice of 

 their- inaftsrs, and their own pra&ice, 

 during their clerkfhip, or apprenticeship; 

 as the farmer does upon that of his father, 

 and the country he happens to be bred in. 

 But why do we, in difficulties, fly from 

 the apothecary to the phyfician, and from 

 the attorney to the counfellor ? Becaufc 

 they have ftudied their profeffions fcienti- 

 -fically, have obtained a general know- 

 ledge, .and taken compreheniive views, 

 of their refpeclive fubje&s ; as well as of 

 the fciences and fubjects which are allied 

 to them; and, added to thefe fcientific aids, 

 haye made themfelves rnafters of the prac- 

 tice, and the opinions, of the able prac- 

 titioners who have gone before them ; as 



Wcllasof COTEMPORARY PRACTITIONERS. 



With refpectto the following MINUTES, 

 it only remains necerfary to fay, that they 

 were written in an adtive fcene, and that 

 more attention was paid to circumftances 

 . than to language. Tliofe on hulbandry 

 ,were written, as I conceive all minutes on 



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