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promote the good of mankind. Not forgetting, 

 at the fame time, the thanks due to the Bath 

 Society for their laudable attempt to encourage, 

 extend, and promote, the knowledge of Arts fo 

 univcrfally beneficial as thofe of Agriculture, 

 Planting, &c. 



One cannot help being furprifed that this great 

 man fhould enter into the minutiae of a fcience i^o 

 remote from that of his profeflion, with fuch ac- 

 curacy and difcernment; for how much foever he 

 may have miftaken fome hiftorical pafTages rela- 

 ting to the fubject, his reafoning from facts and 

 experience is certainly juft, and applies as truly 

 to the practice of Great-Britain, as the country in 

 which he wrote. The following remark is very 

 important and juft, and well worthy the practical 

 farmer's attention here, as well as in Switzerland. 

 He fays, 



c< I am pcrfuaded from the beft Treatifes on 

 (Economics, from the obfervations communicated 

 to me by perfons fully experienced in this matter, 

 and from the founded philofophical principles, 

 that in fowing lefs corn, and putting the remain, 

 der of the lands to fome other culture, there would 

 be as much grain reaped, and alfo many other 

 ufeful productions." 



Had 



