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for the lad twenty years has animated many of 

 our nobility and gentry, to become the liberal 

 patrons of improvement, there is reafon to hope 

 that this moft ufeful of arts will, in a few years, 

 be carried to a greater pitch of perfection than it 

 has ever yet attained in any age or country. 



The very refpectable Societies which have been 

 eftablifhed on the moft liberal plans in London, 

 Norfolk, and divers other parts of this nation, 

 have made fpirited exertions for the advancement 

 of agriculture. They have already done much, 

 and there is reafon to expecl, that the opportunity 

 and afiiftance which the reftoration of peace 

 affords, will enable them to do much more of 

 what remains to be accomplifhed. 



And here it is not eafy to refill the impulfe I 

 feel of exprefling a wifh that the fevcral Provin- 

 cial Societies in this kingdom were, like thofe of 

 fome other countries, diftinguHhed and encouraged 

 by a portion of Royal munificence* This would 



* The Society particularly recommend this hint to fuch of their 

 readers as are Members of the Legiflature; as fome publick encou- 

 ragement of this kind to Provincial Societies would be confiftent 

 with the wifeft policy, and is greatly to be wifhed by every lover 

 of his country. This, if once obtained, would influence numbers 

 to join fuch Societies, and thereby render their finances equal to more 

 liberal exertions for the accomplilhincnt of a fyftem of general im- 

 provement in agriculture. 



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