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 Terre. Filius. z9 TERR,-FILIU$. N o XXXV'I., ... lionos erit louie {uolue P o1o. Virg.  0 Wr. E D 6 E has been repretnted', by many profound adepts in l-1ierogly- pbicks, under the figure of a bearing various kinds of fruit, (which, I fup?o was firff eaken from the fa- mousTue of the KOWLIDO� ofgood and evil. in the garden of g D g, i) and I remember, wheri I was an idle chool-bo�, that infteud of minding. my left'on, I was wonderfully delighted with ga- zing upon th, at learned tree, fo accurately delineated in my ir.//y, grammar, with feveral little boy abot it, rome climbing up, others fitting up,on the boughs and others ftanding upon the groui.cl, with their hats up to catch the- a?plts from thole' above. Thi philofophica! apfle. tree (which i certainly the choiccft fruit-tree in the world) is naturally of. �more fouthreu extraSion, and would not be re concil'd to our cold northreu climate, �o as thriv or come to any tolerabl pcrfec'l'ion, till of late ears I thiak ! may fix its ara in c  .:..,

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