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Changes of Timber and Plants^ Races of Animals 

 Extinct, 



Read February 12th, 1811. 



Belmont^ February 4f/f/l811. 



Sir,' 



Last week, a British publication, entitled, " The Ec- 

 lectic Review," for July 1809, was put into my hands; 

 and it was the first time I had seen it. It furnishes one of 

 those minor means, designed or not, by which irritations 

 (injurious to the interests of both) are kept alive, between 

 the people of the two countries. I have nothing to do with 

 such considerations, as a member of our society, farther 

 than as they tend to destroy the usefulness of facts, very 

 innocently (whatever may be their relevancy) brought 

 forward, to promote the objects we have in view. Had 

 this publication been confined to the country in which 

 it originated (without meaning to slight the opinions of 

 the few, whose notice any thing relating to me would 

 attract) I should have been perfectly indifferent about 

 it, had I been informed of it. Its want of candour and 

 truth, would only have excited an indignant smile. 



Notwithstanding the superficial objections, made by 

 the writer of the article in the British Review, to my 

 relying on the changes of timber and plants, as an ex- 

 ample set by nature, to shew the necessity of changes of 

 crops ; I still continue of my former opinion. It may 

 not be necessary in the old world, wherein almost every 

 thing is artificial ; and the principles and practice of 



