and exploring genius, who is, or may 
be engaged in this purfuit. 
So much likewife depends on foil, 
fituation, climate, and various other at¬ 
tending circumftances, that an individual 
can fcarcely expeft to arrive at any 
confiderable degree of perfe&ion in this 
art, merely from his own obfervation and 
experience ; it is, perhaps, not to be 
obtained in any other manner than by a 
comparifon of the fuccefs which may 
refult from the methods and pra&ice of 
different perfons refiding in fituations 
totally diffimilar to each other: if fuch 
would mutually communicate their ideas, 
it would evidently tend to elucidate a 
fubjefil very interefting to the admirers 
of this ciafs of the productions of na¬ 
il ture; 
