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ADVERTISEMENT. 



The Author to the Experimental Part of 

 bis Readers, 



IT muft be obferved, that throughout 

 this Tour, the object which makes the 

 principal figure, not only for its novelty, 

 but the fuppofed importance of it, is 

 The Culture of Cabbages. 

 Since the firfr. publication of this Work, I 

 have received feveral intimations (not re- 

 gular experiments) that the account given 

 of Cabbages is exaggerated: — That fome 

 perfons have tried them with ill fuccefs ; 

 that even in the minutes of this very Tour, 

 feveral Experimenters condemned them. 

 Upon the whole, that their merit is not 

 decifive. 



In anfwer to this, I muft beg leave to 

 affert, that my own conviction is clear and 

 total, from the uncommon number cf facts, 



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