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to their refpecfblve capacities, or to reward 

 them in any other manner. I found that 

 the people of diftin(ftion, in general here, 

 had a much greater tafte for natural hiilory 

 and other parts of literaturej than in the 

 Englifi colonies, where it was every body's 

 fole care and employment to fcrape a for- 

 tune together, and v;here the fciences were 

 held in univerfal contempt.* It was ftill 

 A 4 complained 



* It feems Mr. Kahn has forgotten his own afTertions in 

 the firfl: volume. Dr. Colden, Dr. Franklin, and Mr. Bartram, 

 have been the great promoters and invefligators of nature ia 

 this country; and how would tKe inhabitants of Old Erg' 

 /<3*i/have gotten the fine colleftions of I'crth-Jmerican trees, 

 flirubs, and plants, which grow at prefent almoft in every 

 garden, and are as if it wpre roturalized in Old England^ 

 had they not been aflilled by their friends, and by the 

 curious in North- America. One need only cail an eye on 

 Dr. Linnaus's new edition of his Syfiema, and tl|e repeated 

 mention of Dr. Garden^ in order to be convin(?ed that the 

 Englijh in America have contributed a grca:er iliare towards 

 promoting natural hiilory, than any nation u^ider heaven, 

 and certainly more than the Fr^ cb, though their learned 

 men are often handfomely penfioned by their great Monarine : 

 on the other hand the Englijh ftudy that branch of know- 

 ledge, from the fole motive of its utility, and the plea- 

 fure it affords to a thinking being, without any of thofe 

 mercenary views, held forth to the learned of other 

 countries. And as to the other parts o/ literature, the Englih 

 in America are undoubtedly fuperior to the French in Canadut 

 witnefs the many ufeful inllitutions, colleges, and fchnols 

 founded in the Englip colonies in h'orlh-Ameica^ and (o 

 many very confiderable libraries now crofting in this 

 country, which contain fuch a clioice ot ufeful and cu ious 

 books, as were vety little known in Cufiada, before li tell 

 into the hands of the Enghfbx not to mention the produc- 

 tions of original genius written \j-^ Americans born. F. 



