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7566. RICE, Chinese.—[further continued].

I have considerable hopes of receiving some dry rice from Cochin-China,
the young prince of that country lately gone
hence [Paris], having undertaken that it shall
come to me. * * * These are all but experiments.
The precept, however, is wise which
directs us to try all things, and hold fast that
which is good.—
To William Drayton. Washington ed. ii, 347.
(P. 1788)