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tleman in Dcvonfhire, fjgned C. H. in Article 

 XXVIII. on the nature and effects of lime as a 

 manure, which he gives as the united effects of his 

 Own experiments and obfervations on the fubject ; 

 •whereas the whole was extracted from a book en- 

 tided " rural improvements," publifhed by my- 

 felf fome years before, as will clearly appear to any 

 one who will take the trouble of comparing the 

 chapter on Lime, page 20 1, in my book, with the 

 faid article. 



He is not the only writer who hath purloined 

 from my book; for half a dozen, at leaft, which 

 have come to my knowledge, have played the fame 

 nefarious game. One author (Mr. Forbes) has 

 copied about thirty pages from the faid book, but 

 then he has very honeftly told the reader from 

 whence they were taken. There is fomething fo 

 very mean, uncandid, and difingenuous in plagi- 

 arifm, that it is much to be wifhed an indelible 

 fligma were to be fixed on every offender, to dis- 

 countenance and prevent a practice fo very dis- 

 honourable. 



NoRTHBOCKHAMPTOK, 



Feb. 8, 1787. 



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