[ ^79 V 



&c. on Agriculture.* But unhappily, his lofs of 

 fight prevented him from realizing in pradlice what 

 he had fo judicioufly adopted in theory. 



That Evelyn, one of the moft ufeful men of 

 the age in which he lived, entertained the fame 

 fentiments as Milton, appears from the preface to 

 his Sylva.f To him the nation is now, and will 

 be for many years to come, greatly indebted for the 

 ftrength of her navy. 



To form a glorious triumvirate, we can invite 

 the very modeft and fenfible Mr. Cowlev, in f up- 

 port of the fame plan. He recommended a Col- 

 lege to be eredled in each Univerfity, and the ap- 

 pointment of profefTors for the inftrudling of young 

 perfons in the principles and pra^ice of this ufeful 

 employment.^ 



But, as it is always the fate of the moft ufeful 

 defigns to meet with difficulties at the beginning. 

 Agriculture itfelf began, foon after, to fall from its 



• Letter to Hartlib, and Biog. Britan. 



•j" Many millions of timber-trees (befides infinite others) have been 

 propagated and planted at the inftigation and by the diredion of this 

 workd ■ See Dedication of Sylva to Cha. II. 



X Cowley's Works, vol. ii. p. 6j6, 7. 



T 2 flourifhing 



