We've given a million pounds to these waterworks and we shan't live to use more than (say) fifteen yearsworth of them.

A penitentiary tax.

To propagate by cuttings, is to cut off the branch or ſtem of a Plant, and to ſet it in the Earth without Roots. Strip it of leaves and branches, Plant deeper than theſe with Roots, and in a rich and moiſt ſoil, keeping it watered and ſhaded, Untill Rooted; cut off their Tops ſave Greens, as if your cutting be 12 Inches long, let 9 be under, and 3 above ground.

Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent.