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but a little on the unwearied diligence of 

 our rivals the French, we should attend to 

 every sister science that may any ways 

 preserve our superiority in manufactures 

 and commerce. 



Domestic ceconomy is an object of equal 

 consequence ; and the author* of the C«- 

 lendar of Flora has established the uses 

 of Zoology in this particular, with unde- 

 niable evidence. This excellent writer has 

 united a happy invention, with the most 

 solid judgement, and certainly merits the 

 highest commendations, as a friend of 

 human kind. Our ingenious countryman, 

 and worthy friend, the late Mr. Stilling- 

 fleet, in the same year pursued almost the 

 same plan as far as his time would permit, 

 with equal success, and manifestly proved 

 the utility of the project, in a learned dis- 

 course prefixed to his work.-f* 



If then Zoology can suggest so many 

 hints towards enlarging and improving our 

 manufactures and agriculture ; we shall 



* Alex. Mai. Berger. 



f Swedish Tracts, translated from the Annan. Acad- 

 second edition. 



