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that! was to make, in which they would naturally be a part, 

 the gates of the garden were thrown open, and every dabbler 

 in botany that could afford pen, ink, and paper, was put in 

 pofTemon of thofe plants and flowers, at a time when 1 had 

 not faid one word upon the fubject of my travels. 



Whether this was owing to M. de Juflieu, M. de Thouin, 

 or M. Daubenton, to all, or to any one of them, I do not 

 know, but I beg they will for a moment confider the great 

 impropriety of the meafure. I fuppofe it would be thought 

 natural, that a perfon delineating plants in a foreign coun- 

 try with fuch care, rifle, and expence as I have done, mould 

 wifli to bring home the very feeds of thofe plants he had 

 delineated in preference to all others : fuppofing thefe had 

 been the only feeds he could have brought home, and ge- 

 nerofity and liberality of mind had led him to communi- 

 cate part of them to M. de Juflieu, we fnall further fay, this 

 lafl- mentioned gentleman had planted them, and when 

 the time came, engraved, and publifhed them, what would 

 he think of this manner of repaying the traveller's attention 

 to him ? The bookfeller, that naturally expected to be the 

 firft that publifhed thefe plants, would fay to the traveller 

 whofe book he was to buy, This collection of natural hifto- 

 ry is not new, it has been printed in Sweden, Denmark, 

 and France, and part of it is to be feen in every monthly 

 magazine ! Does M. de Juflieu think, that, after having 

 been once fo treated, any traveller would ever give one feed 

 to the king's garden ? he certainly would rather put them 

 in the fire ; he mu(t do fo if he was a reafonable man, for 

 othcrwife, by giving them away he is certainly ruining 

 his own work, and defeating the purpofes for which he had 

 travelled* 



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