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rior advantages of the drill-hufbandry, excited 

 numbers to bring their theory to the teft of fair 

 experiment; and the fuccefs that attended it, 

 proved the rectitude of their general principles, 

 and the folidity of their reafoning. 



Many valuable and capital improvements have 

 fince that period been made in Englifli hufban- 

 dry: and thefe great men have been fucceeded 

 by a variety of writers, many of whom have done 

 efTential fervice, by enlightening the minds of their 

 countrymen, and exciting them to emulation. 



About the middle of the lad century, Ireland 

 began to make a confiderable figure in the art of 

 hufbandry. It muft, indeed, be confefled, that 

 the Irifh had very ftrong prejudices in favour of 

 a wretched method of agriculture, till Blythe 

 opened their eyes by his excellent writings. Since 

 that time, a fpirit of improvement has more or 

 lefs been promoted, and in many inftances car- 

 ried on with great zeal, by the nobility, clergy, 

 and gentry of that kingdom. 



In proof of this, it will be fufficient to obferve, 

 that the tranfactions of the Dublin Society for 

 encouraging hufbandry are now cited by all fo- 

 reigners, in their memoirs relating to that fubjecl. 



And 



