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courfe, nor attempt to follow this pene- 

 trating and excurfive mind through the 

 wide and complicated mazes of agricul- 

 tural dhTertatioru Returning back to the 

 verge of this vaft field of treafured obfer- 

 vation and fcientific literature, the memo- 

 rialift may be allowed to obferve what 

 never-flumbering attention to the opera- 

 tions of nature and the prefent Hate of 

 cultivation; what unwearied refearch into 

 the records of other philofophers, this book 

 evinces ! A man of fuch immenfe profef- 

 fional engagements as Dr. Darwin, cornpof- 

 ing and publifhing this work only, had built 

 his lettered reputation upon no narrow or 

 unftable bafis. But when we confider it as' 

 a brother-produclion to the Zoonomia, two 

 large quartos, as bulimy, as fmall a type, and 

 as crowded writing as the Phytologia ; when 

 we confider alfo his fplendid poetic work, 

 with it's hoft of philofophic notes ; there 

 is furely no partiality to him, no want of 

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