THE 



FARMEPJS MAGAZINE 



.MONDAY, 2. MAY 1803. 

 (N^ XIV.) 



BRANCH L 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Letter from George Dempster Efq» of Dunnicheri^ 

 to the Conductor, February i^th. 



Sir, 



1 HOUGH extremely gratified by your obliging favour of the 

 27th ult., I delayed acknowledging its receipt until I iliould alfo 

 have received No. XIII. which reached me only yefterday, aad 

 was worried on the fpot, flump and rump, and proved a very- 

 agreeable morfel. I promife myfelf and my neighbours many a 

 favoury bit from your kitchen ; and fincerely hope that a found 

 way of thinking upon fome of the moil important topics may be 

 introduced, for the benefit of our empire, and the happinefs of 

 its Inhabitants. How much depends upon mankind thinking 

 foundly and wifely on agricultural topics, which, in point of ex- 

 tent, furpafs all others, and which may be faid to embrace the 

 whole furface of the globe we inhabit ! I would ftill be more 

 lavifli in my commendation of. your defign, were it not that f 

 fhould thereby indirectly make a panegyric on myfelf. For thefe 

 laft forty years of my life, I have acSled in the management of 

 my little rural concerns on the principles you fo ftrenuoufly in- 

 culcate. I found my few tenants, without leafes, fubje6t to the 

 blackfmith of the barony •, thirled to its iniils \ we4ded to the 



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