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The HISTORY of

large Account of the best Ways of their Cultivation.

They have propounded, and attempted with great Effect, the making Experiments with Tobacco Oil; the anatomising of all amphibious Creatures, and examining their Lungs; the observing the Manner of the Circulation of the Blood in Fishes; the Ways of transporting Fish from one place to another for Breed; the collecting Observations on the Plague; the examining of all the several ways to breed Bees; the altering the Taste of the Flesh of Animals, by altering their Food; the Probability of making Wine out of Sugar-Canes: Which last I will set down as one Example.


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