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LIFE OF WILSON. 
or not a single stalk of this inestimable corn would be allowed to 
greet the view of the American farmer. 
The beauties of this work are so transcendent, that its faults, 
which are, in truth, mere peccadillos, are hardly perceptible ; they 
may be corrected by one of ordinary application, who needs not in- 
voke to his aid either much learning or much intelligence, A book 
superior in its typographical execution, and graphical illustrations, it 
would be no difficult matter to produce, since the ingenuity of man 
has advanced the fine arts to a state of perfection sufficient to gra- 
tify the most fastidious choice; but who could rival it in those essen- 
tials which distinguish it from all other similar undertakings, and 
which constitute it one of the most valuable offerings to science 
which taste and genius has ever produced ? 
