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reflect additional luftre even on Majefty, and ani- 

 mate individuals liberally to fupport thefc infti- 

 tutions, which reflect the higheft honour on a (late, 

 and tend to promote the intereft and happinefs of 

 ry clafs of its inhabitants. 



But it is not to the exertions of publick focicties, 

 excellent and honourable as they arc, that all our 

 modern improvements in agriculture owe their 

 origin. A confiderablc number of valuable books 

 have within the lad thirty years been publifhed on 

 the fubjeel; in confcqucncc of which the know- 

 ledge of improvements made in this and other 

 nations have been amply fpread, which might 

 othcrwife have remained confined to a fingle 

 County, or even a dill fmaller diftrict. Among 

 thefe, the works of Lord Kaimes, Mr. Young, 

 Stil/jngfleet, Dr. Hunter, Elms, Randal, 

 Lisle, Clarke, Marshal, Mortimer, Baker, 

 Varlev, Harte, Duhamel, Bradley, Kent, 

 De Turbilly, Mills, and others, hive greatly 

 tended to enlighten the understandings of fuch as 

 read then), and to remove the deeply-rooted pre- 

 judices in favour of ancient modes of practice, 

 which farmers in general are too apt to entertain.* 



• The Mufeum Ruflicum, the Farmer's Dictionary, and the 

 Farmer's Magazine, may noi perhap* be improperly mentioned;— 

 each containing detached yiece* of acknowledged merit. 



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