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purpofc of making new enquiries into the Hiftory 

 of Nature, and the Art of Agriculture. 



Bur, without any improper parriality to our own 

 country, we are fully juftificd in allotting that 

 England alone exceeds all modern nations in 

 Huibandry.* To the natural genius of the peo- 

 ple have been added the theory and practice of 

 all nations in ancient and modern times. This 

 accumulated mafs of knowledge has been ar- 

 ranged, divided, and fubdivided; and after patting 

 the teft cf practical experiments, the effential and 

 moft valuable parts of it have been preferved and 

 amply diffufed in the works of a few excellent 

 writers on the fubjecl. And from the fpirit which 



• Mr. Young, in comparing the Linen Manufacture in Ireland 

 with the manufactures of this kingdom, makes the following obfer- 

 vations:— •" The manufacture of the Cngle city of Norwich (layi 

 " Be) amounts to near as much as the whole linen export of Ire- 

 <* land, yet very far is that from being the whole exported produce 

 " of a province ! It is not Uiat of a fingle county ; for Norfolk, 

 " bclides feeding that city, Yarmouih, and Lynn, two of the 



teft ports in England, and a variety of other towns, exports, 

 " 1 believe, more corn than any other county in the kingdom; 

 *< and whoever is acquainted with the fupply of the London mar- 

 " kets knows, that there are thoufands of black cattle fattened 

 «• every year on Norfolk turnips, and fent to Smithfield. What a 



tacle is this I The agriculture In the world the moft pro- 

 ■ duflive of wealth by exportation, around one of the greateft ma- 

 " nufa&ures in Europe." 



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