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Country^ unapt and artlefs therein, does 

 prompt me on ; and the fhort fyhan tale 

 before untold — 



First then, without pretending to have 

 m.ore knowledge in the affair of vegetation 

 in general, than many others have in com.- 

 mon with myfelf, however I am attached to 

 this one objed:, and zealoufly entering on 

 the fubjeft about it ; yet I fhall not hurry 

 the reader on to any of the mechanical 

 points, as I think it not proper to go upon 

 them, till a necelTary occafion for the fame 

 is examined — divers propofitions eftablifhed 

 — the nature of my method of performance 

 a little difcuffed — reafons given for the pecu- 

 liarity of did:ion^ — the delighfulnefs of the 

 feafon for the pradlice recommended — and 

 various collateral refledlions thereupon urg- 

 ed — All which lying in one previous col- 

 ledlion, the feveral didaBic parts and their 

 more immediate relatives will afterward lie 

 the clofer together, and become thereby, 

 both the more eafily conceived and remem- 

 bred, than if interwoven with fo many cir- 

 cumftances, as a novelty of this kind would 

 make the greater interlocution. Infomuch 

 as fuch feeming round about, will in the 



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