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Whenever any fcheme of real utility and na- 

 tional importance is formed by men of genius and 

 true patriotifm, the word kind of impediment it 

 can meet with is, that of national fupinenefs and 

 inattention. If it be not adlually oppofed, it is not 

 promoted i and if people do not refled on it, they 

 cannot fee its importance. 



Nothing, however, c^n totally check the vigour 

 of great minds. Evelyn, in the midft of this ge- 

 neral indifference, pubhfhed, in the year 1675, his 

 Terr ay or a Philofophical Dijcour/e on Earth^^ which j^ 

 with the affiftance of former publications, began to 

 open the eyes of his countrymen to their true in- 

 tereft, to the dignity of his fubjedl, and the neceflity 

 of more than ajuperjicial knowledge^ in order to make 

 improvements in it. 



The next writer we fhall mention is. Lord 

 MoLESWORTH, who, in his Confiderations for the pro- 

 moting of Agriculturey and employing the poor^ makes 

 the following judicious remarks, quite in point to 

 the purport of this effay. " As to Agriculture, I 

 would hurrbly propofe that 2ifchcol for hufhandry 

 Ihouid be ellablifhed in every county, wherein a 

 mailer well (killed in Agriculture fhould teach at 



♦ In 1778, Dr. A. Hunter republilhed this work with notes. 



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