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A TREATISE ON THE CONNECTION OF 



The improvement here suggested by the application of 

 peat as a manure to sugar plantations, is perfectly new, 

 and as such, with a certain set of men, (whose opinions 

 are not worthy of attention) the proposal may be sub- 

 jefted to the epithet of a scheme, an appellation now gene- 

 rally bestowed on all designs, whether the discovery be 

 valuable or useless. Mankind seem at this moment to 

 detest all alterations, excepting in such matters as are 

 the most difficult and dangerous, viz. the laws, the form 

 of go'vermnent, religion, and the scheme of society of a country, 

 in which the most subordinate ranks feel themselves 

 as comi^etent to alter or amend, as a Grotius or a 

 Montesquieu. 



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