...thus relates the story of John Bartram's conversion to botany as it fell from the enthusiast's lips : I scarcely know how to trace my steps in the botanical...on what I shall relate, though I know that some of my friends have lau ghed at it. One day I was very busy in holding my plow, (for thou seest that I...

...thus relates the story of John Bartram's conversion to botany as it fell from the enthusiast's lips : I scarcely know how to trace my steps in the botanical...on what I shall relate, though I know that some of my friends have lau ghed at it. One day I was very busy in holding my plow, (for thou seest that I...

...thus relates the story of John Bartram's conversion to botany as it fell from the enthusiast's lips : I scarcely know how to trace my steps in the botanical...on what I shall relate, though I know that some of my friends have lau ghed at it. One day I was very busy in holding my plow, (for thou seest that I...

...my father " left me, certain debts and the want of " meadows kept me rather low in the begin" ning of my life; my wife brought me nothing " in money,...averred. "Well, then, I'll tell thee: One " day I was vary busy in holding my plough " (for thee seest that I am but a ploughman) " and being weary I ran...

...my father " left me, certain debts and the want of " meadows kept me rather low in the bcgin" ning of my life; my wife brought me nothing " in money,...am not one of those people, Mr. Bertram, who aim at f1nding out the ridiculous in what is sincerely and honestly averred. "Well, then, I'll tell thee :...