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to agriculture. They felt the efte&s, and faw the 

 neceifity of promoting it. Prize queftions were 

 annually propofed in their rural academies, parti- 

 cularly thofe of Lyons and Bourdeaux ; and many 

 judicious alterations were made by the Society 

 for improving agriculture in Britanny. 



Since the conclufion of that war in 1760, mat- 

 ters have been carried on there with great vigour. 

 The Univerlity of Amiens made various propo- 

 fals for the advancement of hufbandry; and the 

 Marquis de Tourbillv (a writer who proceeded 

 chiefly on experience) had the principal direction 

 of a Georgical Society eftablifhed at Tours. 



The Society at Rouen alfo deferves notice; nor 

 have the King of France and his Minifters thought 

 it unworthy their attention. There are at prefent 

 about fifteen Societies exifting in France, efta- 

 blifhed by royal approbation, for the promoting 

 of agriculture; and thefe have twenty co-opera^ 

 ting Societies belonging to them. 



About this time vigorous exertions began to be 

 made in Ruflia to introduce the mod approved 

 fyftem of Hufbandry which had taken place in 

 other parts of Europe. The prefent illuftrious 

 £mprefs of that vafl and riling empire has fent 



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