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But as I included not the fame among 

 the heads mentioned at the beginning, and 

 as it is likely I might have been pardoned 

 by fome, if I had not wrote fo much al- 

 ready upon the other I fhall decHne the 

 faying any thing in this difcourfe thereof : 

 But, by way of Peroration^ I take this oc- 

 calion to profefs, that whatever difrepute 

 fpeculative reafoning may attempt to bring 

 upon the foregoing praftlce — Or aHke may 

 arife from the mifcondud: of an empirical 

 hand — Or even the mifchance of a lingle 

 mifcarriage or two of the judicious — And 

 then only by fome almoft unprecedented mal- 

 influence of the foils, or feafons — Or poffi- 

 bly by fome Idiofyncracy in the plants them- 

 felves — The like on trial, will be found in- 

 cidents in that cafe, which will be, I truft, 

 vaftly overpowered by the beautiful fuccelTes 

 of great multitudes of others : And that, 

 whether or no I have realis'd the merits of 

 that mechanifm by dint of argument. 



M 4 CHAP, 



