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New-York Historical Society. Lima . It is mentioned as a performance remark- able for its botanical errors . 1720. George Crump , an American , published at Leyden , a dissertation de Arundine Americana , ejusque usu . It is a tract on ...
New-York Historical Society. Lima . It is mentioned as a performance remark- able for its botanical errors . 1720. George Crump , an American , published at Leyden , a dissertation de Arundine Americana , ejusque usu . It is a tract on ...
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... remarks on cochineal , con- firming its animal nature . And they offer some remarks on the vegetables they observed in the deserts of Paranos . 1749. The book entitled the Figure of the Earth determined , by Messrs . Bouguer and Con ...
... remarks on cochineal , con- firming its animal nature . And they offer some remarks on the vegetables they observed in the deserts of Paranos . 1749. The book entitled the Figure of the Earth determined , by Messrs . Bouguer and Con ...
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... remarks he makes on plants with com- pound and apetalous blossoms , on pine trees , on indian corn , and on several plants introduced from Europe , render the work not unworthy of being registered here . 1755. The second volume of the ...
... remarks he makes on plants with com- pound and apetalous blossoms , on pine trees , on indian corn , and on several plants introduced from Europe , render the work not unworthy of being registered here . 1755. The second volume of the ...
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... remarks on Peruvian bark , sugar , and others . 1770. The travels of Peter Kalm , into North America , during 1748 , 1749 , 1750 , and 1751 , were translated from Swedish into English , by John Rein- hold Forster , and printed in ...
... remarks on Peruvian bark , sugar , and others . 1770. The travels of Peter Kalm , into North America , during 1748 , 1749 , 1750 , and 1751 , were translated from Swedish into English , by John Rein- hold Forster , and printed in ...
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... Remarks and criticisms on the foregoing letter of 8. Bos 1808 . [ - ] Review of the works of Fisher Ames , 8 Bos . 1809 ADAMS , HANNAH , Medfield , Summary hist . of New Eng . fr . settlement at Plymouth to the adoption of the fed ...
... Remarks and criticisms on the foregoing letter of 8. Bos 1808 . [ - ] Review of the works of Fisher Ames , 8 Bos . 1809 ADAMS , HANNAH , Medfield , Summary hist . of New Eng . fr . settlement at Plymouth to the adoption of the fed ...
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Page 147 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 148 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; Camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon.
Page 147 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
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