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made ufe of in other plantations have no- 

 thing to do here ; fmce the Europeans have 

 adopted the true finefs of tafle of the Afta- 

 tics^ in that and many other cafes : Where- 

 in fuch objedls (to fay only agreeably con- 

 fus'd, would be below the dignity of the 

 idea, well known in China by their idiom 

 of Sharawadgi) have much the precedence, 

 of a Stiff— Starch'd— Studied order. Well 

 exprefs'd by the Latins^ on other accounts 

 by dijparifate pulchrior, A notorious in- 

 fiance we have now of the like Britijh in- 

 novation, is, in the modern preference given 

 to ferpentine Rivers^ before large ftrait ca- 

 nals. But had I not found the opinion cur- 

 rent, of fuch precedent being borrowed from 

 the Chinefe, I fliould rather have thought 

 we had taken.it from the Deity's own man- 

 ner, of planting woods, and modeling the 

 ftarry heavens. 



Come we now to the formidable efti- 

 mate of the recommended, much to do — ^ 

 Why truly the charge extraordinary of the 

 foregoing fcheme, to the ufual manner of 

 planting woods, is fuch a trifle, to thofe 

 who are difpos'd to convert lands to fuch 

 great purpofes ; that if any compute were 



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