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is accompanied in the notes; but as they take up but little 

 room^ and mayferve to illujlrate the rujlick chara£ier of a 

 confidcrable part of the fubordinaic clajfes employed in the 

 hufbandry of the county^ they are admitted. The informatioii, 

 indeed^ is not to be confidered as of any great confequcnce to 

 the pra5l'ical farmer y but as in converfation^fo in readings 

 thofe anecdotes of pleafantry which happen to be excited by 

 local fubje£ls^ are not without their ufe in relieving the mind 



from the uniformity offevererjludies. Some of our readers 

 will fmilc, not difagrecably to thernfelves ; and we trujl no one 

 will be offended at the peculiarity of a writer vjith whom many 

 may hope to be better acquainted. The communications of 

 Mr» Locke ^fo far as they refpeSi i?2iprov€?nents^ we are in- ■ 



for?ned, are the refult of praSlice founded on his own refeC" 

 tionsy unaided by the perufal of agricultural authors ; and 

 therefore they have the recommendation of the greater origi- 

 nality, — IVe Jhall be glad of his further correfpondence^ more 

 efpecially if his profejjional line Jhould furnijh him with ufeful 

 chfervations on the dif cafes and managejnent of cattle in low 

 marjhy countries^ as well as the lands on which they feed. 



Oh the Improvement of Meadow Land-, — with a 

 Jloort Hijlory of a part of Somerfetjhire, 



[By Mr. Locke, in a Letter to the Secretary.] 



Sir, Burnhamy Feb, 2, 1789. 



T Promiled in my laft letter to give you fome ac- 

 -*" count of the methods I have made ufe of for 

 thefe forty years pad towards the improvement of 

 Meadow Land; previous to which I think it necef- 



fary 



