and the little mixture of uncommon thoughts. 

 Nor is every remote circumftance of that 

 kind entirely new and out of the way to 

 them, who have ever taken a book in hand 

 to read on fubjedrs bordering hereon— Indeed 

 the field of vegetable nature, has been fo 

 trav^rs'd within fifty years part, that if fuch 

 a thing was defign'd, it were impofiible to 

 lead them a circuit of any length in wholly 

 untrodden paths : Yet it will moftly be 

 found, that the paths th^y have before re- 

 connoiter'd, have here a different termtna- 

 iion — Upon the whole, I have the pleafure 

 to think, and the fatisfadlion firmly to con- 

 clude, that from their knowledge fo al- 

 ready acquired, and their own prior expe- 

 rimental knowledge in the feveral grov/ths 

 of grain y and the kit chin gar den ^ and other 

 agricolan produdlions 3 that I may fay to 

 them, as Monfieur Rapin faid to his coun- 

 try men on no unlike occafion ^ 



From further Laws, my confcious mind 

 refrains, 



I write not to fuch rude, unpolifli'd fwains. 

 As in old times haurmtwn^ country tilPd, 

 For Art now reigns with nature in the Field. 



I THINK 



