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But when he began to examine into the truth of thofe

facts ufually admitted as axioms* in the{cience of aeri-

culture, it is difficult to defcribe his difappointment,

when, inftead of that certainty he hoped for, he found himfelf continually involved in doubt and uncertainty. N 1.. iA 1€ pay;

Nor does he imagine, that any one who has not examin- ed this fubje€t with the fame attention that he has done, could think it poffible that an art which has been practifed

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all civilized

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feanty, that little elfe but hypothetical conjecture could be expected in that way, until facts were more accurately authenticated. And as he is fentible 1t requires armuh- =: aS| wad 2 RRA St Axiom, 1m mathematics, is a term employed to aenote thofe felf-evident truths. that are. fo obvious to the under {tanding as to be readily recognized as fuch, without any fort of demonftration, and therefore ferve as a bafis upon which other demonftrations may be eréfted=-Such as, a pari 15 not

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