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prevent the propagation of thefe errors, by 
a fpecirlc charge. This fort of general cri- 
ticifm, is, in the highefl degree, illiberal, 
becaufe it can anfwer no purpofe, fave tha v t 
pf depreciating the book. 
In the prefent inftance I was thruft into 
the condemned-hole with four eminent, very 
eminent, botanifts. Such company might 
have rendered the dungeon tolerable: but ? 
coniidering myfelf as the instrument of their 
condemnation, I thought myfelf obliged to 
juftify them if it were in my power. With 
this intention, I wrote to the publifher of 
the Analytical Review, requeuing, that the 
writer of the article in queftion would do 
me the favour, to point out a few of the 
notorious errors, which he had diipovered in 
the Synopfc' t errors which, ijotwithftanding 
their notoriety, had eluded the obfervation 
of the other Reviews; errors which, with a 
view to the greater accuracy of a future edi- 
tion, I fincerely wifhed to find, but which I 
had fought for in vain. To this requeft I 
received no anfwer, either privately, or in, 
any of their fubfequent publications. 
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