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Again, as they are a fort of foreign do- 

 minions we are entering into, and the ways 

 but little levelled, I think it to favour the 

 rout I propofe to take, to alledge the pre- 

 cedent, that where there has feemed to have 

 been an infuperable fuperiority of the powers 

 of nature, over thofe of art, yet that the 

 latter has almoft, if not entirely got the 

 afcendant. As is to be found in that fortu- 

 nate Hit which has enriched the whole world 

 with fo many fine fruits ; I mean the art of 

 engrafting. The firft experiment of which 

 kind, might likely have been thought by an 

 unenterprifing by-ftander but a hujm futilis ; 

 and that at higheft, no other than fome mot- 

 ley birth could proceed from the perverfe 

 copulation of an apple and a crab ^ like as 

 in animals the mule, or any other hetero- 

 geneous commixture in fpecie. But the 

 different event thereon, as well known to 

 every naturalift, has been cried up by fome 

 of the learned, as the triumph of art over 

 nature : which altho' contended by others to be 

 nature's triumph ftill 5 either conftruftion will 

 be found to ferve my purpofe without enter- 

 ing into a controverfy, that promifes to draw 

 ine too far from my purpofe. For tho' I fet 



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