»f8a4. Reviewers Reviewed. 85 



-pnrpofely rode againft the gate ; and llie iMmtcil man miy throw 

 the gate towards its falling- poir, ^v'ith all his povvei-, without 

 injury to the caft hangings. 



The fuving to the public, by adopting the caf^-iron, compared 



•with the belt wrought~iron wo;k, as I before mentioned, is 

 apparently more than 60, and le.dly no leis than 50 per cent. 



The patterns have bctn executed with much exartnefs, in 

 fnie n^ahogany, to iny utmoll fatisu^clion *, and the callings are 

 of cooirfe tlie fame. It thereiore rcnvained only for their ftrength 



-to be proved j and this being done, m} defign is complete. 



REVIEWERS REVIEV/ED. 



Vindication of Findlafer'*s j4gricultural Survey of 

 Peebles Shire, 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 

 ,SlR, 



. Induced, from the Prospectus circulated with yoiit 

 Magazine, to espe6l a work, not of a mere local, bat gene- 

 rally interefting nature, and ft ill more by the favourable fpe- 

 ximen of the auihor's talents for general reafoning, exhibited in 

 the extracts from the works relative to Dearth^ Monopoly, f^ore- 

 stalling, &:c. which you publilhed in No. 5, 6cc., i because a 

 fubfcriber for the Peebles Survey, and, in m.ere juftice to the 

 •author, muPt fay, that, upon perufal, my expectations, fo far 

 from being deceived, were even exceeded. 



Although the ^vork, from its irile, isfeemingly of mere local 

 •intereft to the inhabitants of that particular count}'-, yet the au- 

 thor, from his habit and talent of generalization, has communi- 

 cated much ufefulnefs and intereft even to its moft local fpeciali - 

 ■ties, by afligning reafons of exteniive application, both in ac- 

 •counting for the aftiiully exifting pra6lices, as well as to enforce 

 'his own propofed ameliorations. 



The mere reprefentation of the exifting Itate of agriculture in 

 .Peebies-fliire, conftitutes, in my opinion, by far the moft incon- 



F 3 fiderable 



* Should the cast-iron work, in any case, happen to be famished 

 'from the foundery, without being accurately fitted, it might be ad- 

 justed by filing, -with the same facility as ■vvrought-iron work may be 

 altered '■, and when any gate docs not fall with the force desired, the 

 mears of encreasing the fall, have already been fully dc«=t;ribed, In rn;. 

 •forirer communication. 



