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enterprize, naade the difcoveries for them- {elves.—Many trials may prove abortive; —-but if one, among a great number, fucceeds, they will ee. ie agreeable'fa- tisfaction to fee/, that they have not been entirely ufelefs to their country and pof- terity s—Nor do they{pring up on the face of the earth, and decay like the weeds of the field, that only incumber the ground for a feafon—are trodden un- der foot, and foon forgotten,—or are only remembered with abhorrence and difguft. In the northern regions of Norway and Lapland, the inhabitants are obliged to try many plants as food» fer themfelves and cattle, which have beat neglected| by thofe whofe milder climate leaves them a greater variety to choofé from. They ga- ther the leaves and tender twies of various forts of trees, which they carefully pre- ferve, inftead of hay, for their beftial, and find that it affords them as abundant nourifhment as any hay whatever*. Ought

* And in the fouthern parts of France, Ital y, and in India, they gather the leaves of trees, with which they feed their beafts in fummer, when the grafs is ane up by the parching heat of the fun,

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