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the author of the effay : — a man, who, while 

 eminently converfant in the abftrufe and ele- 

 gant departments of fcience, could devote fo 

 much time and pains to the culture of a fingle 

 root; but a root on which the fubfiftence and 

 comfort of a large part of the poor of thefe 

 kingdoms has been known to depend. 



The piece on the fubjeft of a Commutation 

 for Tithesy by Mr. Benjamin Pryce, has 

 been honoured with a public mark of this 

 Society's approbation. The fubje£l, with re- 

 lation to agricultural improvements in this 

 nation, is of the firft collateral importance. 

 And though it may poffibly be obje&ed, that 

 any alteration in the prefent fyftem of Church 

 eftablifhment is not an objeft of contempla- 

 tion within the province of an agricultural 

 fociety, nor a fubjeft on which fuch an aflb- 

 ciation may be fully qualified to judge; yet 

 is it unqueftionably a fubjeft, on which any 

 body of men, as well as any individual, has 

 a right to form and to give an opinion. The 

 influence which any fyftem, for tithing the 



produce 



