4396 Mr. en 
enit ne aw + 5i nog X? 3 Dal 168110 Gu wn 
XXIV. pa py pons of Jome of i» d per etait 
x tarally growing in this,Part.of America, bot ancally.arranged.. 
a By the: Rev.. MANASSEH: CUTLER E... day and. M. S. 
, ond Member of tbe Philofopbical Society ah Philadelphia... ote 
I an: dfi edunitry, where nature fii been liberi i in her 
próduđtions,. and internal refources are gr reatly wanted, few 
objects can be of greater importance than natural hiftory.- ue (c 
e > thee is no Margen of ufeful bea E we Shave fo: 
tle cultivated. "The cultivation Ca this et gr of fcience will 
öpen to ode view the treafures we poffets anenjoyed ; ‘and muft 
eventually tend to the usa" and \ welfare of our Citizens, the 
extenfion of their commerce, and the im provement ‘of thofe arts 
Which adorn and. embellith life, 
"The little progrefs we have made in: exploring the fofit King- 
dom, is füfficieat to-convince us, that the bowels of the. coun- 
ex are well ftored with minerals and other ufeful fofi Is ; which 
are capable of being i improved, not only for the benefit of indi- 
das. but a | national adv: Mages. 
“We have; perhaps, as great a variety of dde Eu as 
any country Produces, in a fimilar climate. | But a great partc of 
inda have n never "been 1 fo far noticed as to receive even ce trivial 
by TWh 
name. Canada and ‘the’ fouthern’ Rates; efi de the attention 
pad t to their productions by fome of their own inhabitants, “have 
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n vifi ted by eminent ‘botanif ts fom. opt y 
partc E that extenfive trad t of c country which lies between: em, 
ing feveral degrees. “of 1 bred and ‘exceedingly diverfi- 
kh? in dts farface and foil, feems' {till to remain unexplored. - 
The almof t total negle&t of botanical enquiries, in this. part 
of the country, may be imputed, J^ part, to this, zhat Potany 
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