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BENEFIT OF 
not to contemn, but accurately to remark 
thofe remedies, which are cried up amongfl 
the common people. For he who boafls of 
knowing more of the virtues of fimples, than 
what e tafle, fmell, f fr unification, and experi- 
ments will fuggeft, vehemently deceives, or is 
deceived. t 
Ye who intend one of thefe days to culti- 
vate your native foil with advantage, and pro- 
fit, ' may be allured that you will find nothing 
in all the books of hufbandry, that will be of 
inch affifcance to you in that art, as travelling 
thro 5 the different provinces of this kingdom. 
In fome parts, and thofe the moll barren, you 
e Vid. Amsenit* academ. vol. 2. p. 371. in an exprefs 
treatife on this fubjeCt the author quotes feveral eminent 
phyficians both ancient and modern, who maintained the 
fame opinion as to tafies. And vol. 3. p. 183. where the 
affiftarice-to be had from fmell is confidered, and the ef- 
fects of odors amply treated on. 
f Fructification. The reader perhaps may be at a lofs to 
nnderiland this. The meaning of it is, that plants which 
agree in the genus and even in the clafs agree aifo in their 
vertues. Thus the leaves of all the grades are good for 
cattle, the lefler feeds for fmall birds, the greater for man, 
and this without exception. The debated plants of Ray 
are diuretic, the rough-leaved plants of the fame author 
are aftriagent and vulnerary. Plants with a pea-flower are 
all wholefoipe for cattle and man, &c. Vid. a curious trea- 
tife on lubjecl, in the Academ . vol. 1 . p.. 38 9 . 
will 
