By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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reported to be far superior in flavour to any now grown in 

 Europe. 



On the subject of the Potatoe there is also a point of curi- 

 osity and much interest open to those who have leisure and 

 opportunity of conducting the investigation. Several ac- 

 counts of its introduction into Europe, and especially into 

 Great Britain and Ireland, are before the public, differing 

 from each other, and none exactly correct ; the entire truth 

 is probably to be extracted from the whole, and ought to be 

 supported by references to the original authorities for the 

 different facts. To these, in order to render the early his- 

 tory of the Potatoe complete, an account of its original dis- 

 covery, and the observations made on it by the first and early 

 visitors to the shores of South America, should be obtained ; 

 and this research would probably lead to a detection of the 

 circumstances attending its first introduction into Virginia, 

 which is at present involved in obscurity. 



