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then 'is, it to be lamented,.that Men of Au-thority, whom Fortune has ] favoured withPlenty and Riches, 'Providence endowedwith' ‘strong, natural Parts , 1 Leisure affordedall .Opportunities of improving, and Na-ture lent a laudable Curiosity ; is it not tobe lamented I fay, that such should con-demn the most %red Truths of Nature ?But whether they that oppbfe them, donot, in the End tuffer arid preVent the Uti-lity of their Fellow-Subjects, I stiall leaveevery thinking Period rO Judge.

' No Naturalist can deny the near Ana-logy or Affinity there is betwixt Mineralsand Vegetables, when it is .well known,that even in some, the very mineral Prin-ciples they partake of may be discerned bythe Taste ; as for Instance, all the Productsof Oaks, even the Bark and Wood itself, thegreen Shells of Walnuts, Pomegranates, andOthers of the like Kind, strike such a sen-sible mineral Gust upori The Palate, that hemust be deprived of the Sense of Taste, orobstinate to the last Degree, that will notconfess it: Does not again the PeruvianBark, that grand Specifick in Agues andIntermittent^, derive its medicinal Qua-lities from ferruginous or irony Particles ?So that I am convinced, that the latediscovered Preparation of Steel, which soremarkably has distinguished itself for theCure of such Fevers, will .soon out-rival

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