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the Right Honourable 
The Earl of NORTHUMBERLAND, 
My Lord, 
WBfiART 
NEW YOJ^K 
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QAi^DE/v 
F repeated Obligations demand renew’d Acknow- 
ledgments, I fliould be the moft ungrateful of Man- 
kind to omit this Opportunity of declaring how much 
I owe to Your Lordlhip’s continued Favour; and with 
how little Title, beyond the mere Defire not to be 
found wholly unworthy of it. 
But there is another Source from which this Under- 
taking in a Manner claims the Protection of Your Lord^ 
fhip’s moft refpeCted Name. The Plants which will be 
found its belt Recommendation, are new in Europe : 
and feveral, indeed the greater Part of thefe, were firft 
rais’d in this unfavourable Climate under Your Lord- 
ftiip’s 
