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Mr. Bartram found a single tree in Vir- 

 ginia, near the Falls in the river James. Dr. 

 Golden saw it in many places between New 

 York and Albany, in about 41 30' north 

 latitude. It grows naturally also in Siberia 

 and the northern parts of China in nearly the 

 same latitude ; which is an additional in- 

 stance to those we have remarked in the 

 work on vegetables, that the natural plants 

 of Europe, or a species of them* are ge- 

 nerally to be found in the same latitudes of 

 the New World, although their uses are fre- 

 quently reversed, for the same plant which 

 the husbandman labours to root out of the 

 earth in one part of the globe, is sought after 

 with avidity by the inhabitants of other 

 countries. The nettle, which our peasants 

 drive from their fields with blows and male- 

 dictions, is a crop which the Egyptians put 

 up frequent and fervent prayers to be blessed 

 with. Its seed affords them an oil, while the 

 stem furnishes them with a thread, which 

 they weave into excellent cloth. Thus, by 

 investigation, we shall find, that there is not 

 a plant, 



" From the proud woods, whose heads the sky assail, 

 To the low violet that loves the dale," 



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