CULTIVATION of tue VINE- 



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ledge-, endeavoured to lay open and explain every pari of this 

 undertakings yet new to Awerica; though an undertaking 

 as antient at leajl as the days of Noah; and yet %vhatfcems 

 f range to tclU it is an art that has not yet arrived at per^^ 

 feSlion^ hut is fiill vifthly capable offome effentialimprove'- 

 vients. That America fljoidd give the fniflnng froke at laji 

 to a work-^ that has been in hand above four t hoi f and years ; 

 aud nxjhat is fill more flrange-t a rvork every part of which, 

 is an experiment J if attended to; J fay that the completing 

 offuch a work fljoidd be left to the genius of J 



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f America a good deal of p 

 c cafe-^ J cannot yet take \ 



fay; but I think there are fo 



? if fieadily piirfiied-i andhnnro'. 



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off. 



n'ovea oy eajy expcrmtcnts^ 

 iking of %vines and the prefer %nng thenh xvili foon 

 • at greater perfe^Jion^ than yet it has been done, 

 fiiccefs and perfefiion of every undertaking depends 



fitting out right : Indeed the people of 



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of the people of Europe^jin things of 



his nature^ becatfe %ve begvn %vhere they leave off^ 

 re free from the force of all their prejudices and err 01 

 ufoms; hut then %ve mtfl determinately aSl like nunr 

 idgefor ourfehes^ and not implicitly folloiv them, %vii 

 he life of our onm reafon: Let us thenfuppofe that t 



of improvement^ and let the people of Am 



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erica 





y the flrength of th 

 'ings^ that have not bee 

 fect that the arts andf 



of before; fc 



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hyfldould 



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eluded from the honour and pleafure of b 



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iced vigncrons it zvill be tmpojjlbkfc 

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