322 C H A I* T E R 51. 
and the number of grains, calculated by tfie 
number in one ounce, might be 576,840 (i). 
It is to be feared that this method can 
fcarcely be reduced to advantageous praftice 
on a large and agricultural plan. 
In the fame year, an Account of the Oil 
extracted from the American Earth-nut, or, 
more properly. Ground Peafe {e). This 
plant, like a few others bf the fame clafs, 
has the lingular property of protruding its 
fecd-veffel into the ground, where it ripens 
the fruit 5 hence it is named by Ray, Ara^ 
chis Hypogaios. The oil of this pulfe is fo 
mild and well tafted, and withal fo eafily 
procured, that it might bid fair to fuper- 
fede that of olives, or even oil of almonds* 
It is cultivated in North Carolina, and 
might advantageoufly be raifed in the Sugar 
Iflands (/). 
As from the earlieft times of the Royal 
Society, it had been cuftomary to requejft of 
fome member, properly qualified from his 
knowledge of the fubjed, to review, and 
^{d) Phil Jranf Vol. Iviir. p. 203. 
{e) Arachis hypogaea Lin, Spec^ Plant, p. 1040. 
(/) PhiL Tranf, Vol. lix. p. 379—383, 
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