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adapted, and the work it requires, are expkined 

 very clearly 5 and it is very probable, that it was 

 from thence that Mr. Tull has drawn his difco- 

 veries. One finds alfo in the fame publication, 

 that about the year 1665, the Royal Society ap- 

 pointed a committee, who employed themfelves in 

 enquiring into every thing relating to the hiftory 

 and progrefs of Agriculture in thefe kingdoms: 

 This committee publifhed queftions the moll inte- 

 refting, and the bed calculated to anfwer their de- 

 figns in enquiring into all the different branches of 

 Agriculture, in order that from a knowledge of the 

 true ftate of it, and from the obfervations of per- 

 fons ikilled in oeconomics, whom they requefled to 

 communicate their fentiments, they might fully 

 eftablifh that part of it which feemed to them of 

 the greateil importance. Thefe queftions contained 

 almoft every thing that has been propofed fince 

 that time: and it appears that this committee were • 

 employed without being much known, on the fame 

 objects which have engaged the attention of all Eu- 

 rope for twenty-five years pad, with fo much en- 

 thufiafm and oftentation. 



But to return to my fubje6l. Suppofing the 

 common increafe of wheat to be fix and a half, as 

 it is generally fown at prefent, this would be thirteen 



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