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one look at the colledion, through any open* 

 ing, for the gate was clofe as the door of a 

 convent, and the whole orchard was furronnd- 

 ed with a high hedge of the lignum vlta^, fo 

 thick and impenetrable as to refift even the 

 prying eye of curiofity. 



Both the orchard and garden were 

 originally planned, and have been wholly 

 planted under the immediate infpeftion of Mr. 

 Ellcock, to whofe tafte and induftry every 

 credit is due for the improvements made, 

 and the very valuable collection already 

 brought together. He is a fci^ntific bota- 

 nift; and, from learning the attention he de-^ 

 votes to his plants and trees, and to the vege- 

 table world in general, we could not but con- 

 template, in ftrong fympathy, the fevere lofs 

 he muft have felt in the unhappy fate of the 

 learned naturallft of Joe's River." In a 

 fmall and remote ifland fuch a lofs becomes, in 

 many points of view, irreparable, it being 

 \inlike Europe, where from fcience being more 

 advanced and more generally diffuled, fo 

 many may be found of congenial minds, that 

 the lofs of one of Flora's favorite fons 

 might not be equally irremediable* I have 



