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Excerpt from The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts
Britain to the remotest corner of the new hemisphere, and throughout the world, and terminating in a prophecy which all but the misanthrope must wish to see fulfilled. With this address the great author of the Loves (f the Plants, in a complimentary letter to Dr smith, expressed himself in terms of high commendation and gratification. Dr. Smith never enjoyed the pleasure of receiving this letter. Had he lived, the two amiable poets would unquestionably have derived much satis faction from a correspondence begun in this way. But it is ever to be lamented that the pes tilence of 1798 cut him off prematurely from his usefulness to his friends and to the world. In the present edition this address is retained; (and care has. Been taken to preserve as much as possible the correctness which characterised, and which was so much admired in the first.
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