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About the year 1600, France made fome con- 

 fiderable efforts to revive the arts of hufbandry, 

 as appears from feveral large works, particularly, 

 Les Moyens de devenir Riche ; and the Cofmopolilc, 

 by Bernard de Palissy, a poor porter, who 

 feems to have been placed by fortune in a Na- 

 tion for which nature never intended him; Le 

 Theatre d' Agriculture, by Deserres; and U Agri- 

 culture ct Mai/on Rujlique, by MefTrs. Etienne, 



LlEBAULT, &C. 



Nearly in the fame period, the pi'aftice of huf- 

 bmdry became more prevalent among this peo- 

 ple and the Flemings than the publifhing of books 

 on the fu bj eel. Their intention feemed to be that 

 of carrying on a private lucrative employment, 

 without inftrucYing their neighbours. Whoever 

 therefore became defirous of copying their method 

 of Agriculture, was obliged to vifk that country, 

 and make his own remarks on their practice. 



The principal idea they had of hufbandry was, 

 by keeping the lands clean and in fine tilth, to 

 make a farm refcmble a garden as nearly as pof- 



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Such an excellent principle, at firft fetting our, 

 led them of courfc to undertake the culture of 



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