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cvi PER FA Fo A* 0 EY 
» "This country oo eae eck Be having fuh afftu- 
ence and leifure as to admit of their'app tlie Titi- 
yation of the fciences, and to the. ri ‘of improvements in-aits, 
manufactures, agriculturey &c. it will Mayr peeta, ‘be éxpeéted; 
that this Academy fhould vie óld:coun- 
toe: where eid wine am te e ques pct 
The iM otii itd mathematical papers in — gem "T 
haps, be the leaft entertaining of any itr the cole Pipe 
e the fmalleft numberof readers. - However; b qae opea 
fach ich a work. Few, if any. of them, contain deep" 
bet they are anne ofthe 
prattical kind. The aftronoitical: pieces pri incipa heen apr yah, 
ebfervations and deductions, às are fubfet ierit to t 
ography and navigation, the improvement of ‘which is^ 
importance to this country. And as aftronomical obfery As 
may be applied to ends fo valuable, it is earrieftly to be wiflied, tha 
every gentleman capable of it, would improve every: brlonky 
to make them with reri and when made, would kindly com> 
municate them to the Aca ieda "Thefe;and. all mathernatical pie? 
= will be mon receive and tus siewion paid to thei by” 
this body. ibaa dad» 
To fome dedit $ i & i d many papers, which havea lace 
~ dathe. hyfical part, may - 5 a many papet ; but it ought LA 
remembered, that one intereftir Vati the Acáder 
tural hiftory- of their own country ;—4 cóuntry, where the : 
of defence andthe méan of fubfiftence have, hitherto, ote [^s 
groffed the induftry ofits inhabitants; where the fofi and 
getable kingdoms are yet unexplored, and gv their mot va- 
luable Productions fiil undifcov vered. ` EETA 
Jis the part of a patriot- philofopher es fue ev eet 
cultivate every uh which may iwi ner or Íecurity. 
and welfare of his fellow citizens, the extenfion of their commerces. 
and the i improvement of thofe trs Which ‘adorn and embellish life. 
Nor can fuch traces and sears as a occur, of the manners and 
refources of its aboriginal inhabita lie&io 
Befides the idea thus excited of the cor ndi | 
the prefent inhabitan ' of the fame cli ses an 
fome way or other, fe oem receive 
e to their own 
