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His front the whifpering breeze receives, 

 The blue iky trembles through it's leaves j 

 A cottage group beneath his fhade, 

 Their locks with flowers and rufhes braid j 

 And, gurgling round dark beds of fedge, 

 A brook juft fhows it's filver edge. 



But now, turning from The Vales of 

 Weaver, let us feek the Botanic Garden. 

 The commencement of that poem in 1779 

 has been previoully mentioned, with the 

 circumftance which gave it birth. It con- 

 fifts of two parts ; the firil contains the 

 Economy of Vegetation, the fecond the 

 Loves of the Plants. Each is enriched by 

 a number of philofophical notes. They 

 ftate a great variety of theories and experi- 

 ments in botany, chemiftry, electricity, 

 mechanics, and in the various fpecies of 

 air, falubrious, noxious, and deadly. The 

 difcoveries of the modern profeflbrs in all 

 thofe fciences, are frequently mentioned 

 with praiie highly gratifying to them. In 



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