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the Progrefs which he has made in the 
ing, thofe - expreffive Verfes of Virgil in his Sixth 
Book of the <:^/Eneid: 
’^aucit quos aquus amavit 
Jupiter, aut ardens evexit ad athera virtus, 
'Dtis geniti, potuere. 
V. A Query- pvopofed to fuch curious ^erfons 
as ufi the Greenland Trade, occajioned hy 
the annexed Letter from Mr. David Ni- 
colfon, Surgeon^ to 2)r. Mortimer, Sec. R.S. 
“ TTyHether the Scurvy-grafs of Greenlandhc the 
“ V V fame Species, as to its external Appearance, 
“ with the common Scurnjy-grafs of England 'I 
And, having no acrid Tafte while growing in 
Greenland, doth it, being brought growing in 
Earth from Greenland, gradually acquire an acrid 
y Tafte, as it is brought into a warmer Climate 
SIR, London, Dec. i6. 1730. 
I Communicate this as Matter of Truth, and not 
Hypothetic, n)iz. That the Scurvy-grafs in 
Greenland, equally the fame with ours in England, 
as to the Figure of the Plant, and all its Appearance 
to the Eye, changes its Nature much, as it approaches 
the Sunj for in that Climate, its principal Quality, 
the volatile Salt, is neither pungent nor perceive- 
able ; but to the Tafte, the whole Plant is intirely as 
infipid as the Colwort or Beet. So by my Endeavour, 
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