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undoubtedly have attributed to the nature of 

 the root, and to the foil, that want of fuccefs 

 which was the effect of their negligence, if 

 many of their neighbours had not fucceeded. 



If in every province fome perfon could be 

 found fufficiently benevolent to fow a large 

 quantity of the feed of the Root of Scarcity, 

 and to diftribute the plants to all thofe who 

 fhould be defirous of cultivating them 3 if 

 fome one fhould alfo condefcend to teach, 

 at the fame time, the methods of planting, cul- 

 tivating, and ufing them, he would certainly 

 render a very important fervice to the inhabi- 

 tants of the country, to thofe who cannot de- 

 rive information from the Memoirs which 

 are publifhed by government, or by the 

 learned ; becaufe they are neither acquainted 

 with them, nor underftand them-, and are 

 ignorant even of the exiftence of thofe perio- 

 dical publications, which frequently announce 

 ufeful difcoveries, and intereiling inventions. 

 The inhabitants of the country continue in a 

 ftate of ignorance, only becaufe pains is not 

 taken to communicate inftructicn to them ; 



they 



