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17, et seq.] [Footnote 4: Of clay he says, "It is a cursed step-dame to almost all vegetation, as having few or no meatuses for the percolation of alimental showers."] [Footnote 5: Sir William Temple gives this list of his pears:--Blanquet, Robin, Rousselet, Pepin, Jargonel; and for autumn: Buree, Vertlongue, and Bergamot.] [Footnote 6: Brougham's _Speeches_, Vol. II. p. 233.] [Footnote 7: Vol. IV. p. 443, First Series.] [Footnote 8: _Notes and Queries_, Vol. V. p. 17.] [Footnote 9: _Ibid._] [Footnote 10: Lib. I. v. 104.] [Footnote 11: Sparks's _Works of Franklin_, Vol. VIII. p. 538.] [Footnote 12: _Notes and Queries_, Vol. V. p. 549, First Series.] [Footnote 13: _Ibid_. Vol. V. p. 140. See, also, _Ibid._ Vol. V. p. 571; Vol. VI. p. 88; _Dublin Review_ for March, 1847, p. 212; _Quarterly Review_ for June, 1850.] [Footnote 14: _Oevres de Turgot_, Tom. IX. p. 140.] [Footnote 15: _Oeuvres de Condorcet_, par O'Connor, Tom. V. p. 162.] [Footnote 16: Sparks's _Works of Franklin_, Vol. VIII. p. 537; Mignet, _Notices et Portraits_, Tom. II. p. 480.] [Footnote 17: Cabania, _Oeuvres_, Tom. V. p. 251.] [Footnote 18: _Lettres de Madame Du Deffant_, Tom. III. p. 367.] [Footnote 19: _Ibid_. Tom. IV. p. 35.] [Footnote 20: Lacretelle, _Histoire de France_, Tom. V. p. 90.] [Footnote 21: _Oeuvres de Condorcet_, par O'Connor, Tom. V. pp. 406, 407.] [Footnote 22: Capefigue, _Louis XVI_, Tom. II. pp. 12, 13, 42, 49, 50. The rose-water biographer of Diane de Poitiers, Madame de Pompadour, and Madame du Barry would naturally disparage Franklin.] [Footnote 23: Mignet, _Notices at Portraits_, Tom. II. p. 427.] [Footnote 24: _La Gazette Secrete_, 15 Jan. 1777; Capefigue, _Louis XVI._, Tom. II. p. 15.] [Footnote 25: _Oeuvres de Turgot_, Tom. II. p. 66.] [Footnote 26: _Oeuvres de Turgot_, Tom. VIII. p. 496.] [Footnote 27: Vol. X. p. 107.] [Footnote 28: _Memoires de Madame D'Epinay_, Tom. III. p. 431.] [Footnote 29: Galiani, _Correspondance_, Tom. II. p. 275, _Lettre de 25 Juillet_, 1778. Nobody saw America with a more prophetic eye than this inspired Pulcinello of Naples. As far back as the eighteenth of May, 1776, several weeks before the Declaration of Independence, he wrote,--"The epoch is come for the total fall of Europe and its transmigration to America. Do not buy your house in the Chaussee d'Antin, but at Philadelphia. The misfortune for me is that there are no abbeys in America."
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