§ DISQUISITIONS

animals upon which the experiments have been made.

It would be no difficult tatk to point out fuch a train of experiments, as, if faithfully executed, would bring this par- ticular to the certainty required. But as it would require little lef$ than princely munificence to execute that fet of experi- ments properly, it is perhaps unneceflary here to propofe them. How much is it

> PAC TKA A-Hat Re at: aie to be regretted, that this nation,‘which

gives the mot{t libe: al encouragement to

almoft every other kind of improvement,

fhould never have thoucht of applyine

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{mall portion of the mublic monev(and |\

very{mall proportion would luffice) to-

wards the profecutine of

fuch national experiments in Agriculture as exceed the power of individuals to perform; and thus bring certainty--into. an art the moft ufeful and effentially neceffary to the exiftence and well-being of man

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ee Gchs Kind t itance 1s a iikine example E ta)

OF the real utility of fuch an inftitution, tipathy at one kind of animal, or at one kind of food, which no reafon- can overcome, or leneth of habit re-

concile: This is called an idiofyncracy.

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