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ccption thcfe volumes have met with among the 

 landed gentlemen, and liberal-minded farmers, may 

 be confidered as a proof that the proceedings of 

 the Society have not been unfuccefsfblly devoted to 

 their main end. 



The papers contained in the prefent volume, 

 though a continuation of former exertions in the 

 publick caufe, will be found to embrace objedls of 

 improvement beyond the common province of the 

 farmer. Among them that of planting, the em- 

 bellifliment of eftates, and the provifion of a na- 

 tional ftore of oak timber, are confidered as par- 

 ticularly worthy of the publick attention ; the atten- 

 tion efpecially of opulent land-owners, who poiTefs 

 from that opulence, and from their leifure, powers 

 of exertion peculiar to themfelves. In this clafs of 

 the community there are obvioufly other powers of 

 doing good, which, happily exerted, muft redound 

 to their lafting honour, and no lefs to the happinefs 

 and folid glory of their country. Nor will it be a 

 circumftance of fmall encouragement to an exertion 

 of their natural influence, when an objedt fhall be 

 held out, in the accompliftiment of which the manu- 

 fadlurer and the fedulous tradefman are found qua- 

 lified as able coadjutors. To the latter defcription 

 of citizens it will alfo afford much encouragement, 



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