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was carefully beat down with a rammer, or If a heavy roller was drawn 

 along the fummit and each fide, all inequalities and hollows would 

 fooner appear, and could eafily be filled up with coarfe gravel. A 

 fmoolh, equal fnrface, by not occafioning- jolts, removes one manifell 

 caufe of injury to roads. And a little care for a feafon or two to till up 

 and confolidate the ruts, will prefent a road which, oF all others, bid* 

 faireft to laft long, and need little reparation. It is, indeed, attended 

 with extraordinary trouble and expence at firft ; but will prove a faving 

 in the end. By attending to tliefe principles, tnillees on turnpike roads 

 may be afTured, that they Hiall be no lofers in the courfe of 30 years. * 



Perhaps the author has thus defcribed the bed way of forming 

 and making roads that has been hitherto devifed ; and we heartily 

 beftow our approbation upon the methods fuggefted by him. 

 Road-making has been treated very fuperficiaily in moft of the 

 county Reports, though few branches of political economy ajre 

 more nearly connected with agricultural profperity than the 

 making and repairing of public roads. 



We fhall conclude with obferving, that we could have wifhed 

 the author had taken to himfelf more latitude than he has 

 thought proper to aflume in regard to extenfive general reafon- 

 jngs, for which his talents are abundantly adequate. Meantime, 

 in fo far as he has gone, we in general coincide with him ; par- 

 ticularly in his opinion as to the abfurdity of withholding leafes, 

 even in mere pafture diftrids, and of refufing to the tenant the 

 complete alienable property of his leafe. In the fentiments ex- 

 prefled upon thefe points, Dr Douglas will be joined by nine- 

 tenths of Britifh agriculturilU ; and we rejoice to fee dodrines, 

 uhich we have long maintained^ judiciouily illuilrated by a 

 gentleman who mult be regarded by ail parties as an impartial 

 judge. 



A Philofcphical and PraElical Treatife on Horfes, and on the Moral 

 Duties of Man towards the Brute Creation. By John Law- 

 rence. 8vo. 2 vols. Symonds, London. 1802. 



TO farmers, few fubjeds can be more interefting than that of 

 the publication now under notice. Horfes, our fole agents of 

 labour, at leall in this quarter of the empire, are of ferious im- 

 portance, from their hi^h price and expcnGve keep. Hence, in- 

 dependent of moral feelings, every attempt to inftrud us how to 

 preferve them in health and vigour, or to rellore them when dif- 

 cafed, muft be received with complacency. How far the pre- 

 fent performance is calculated for fulfilling thefe important ends, 

 we (hall not prefume to decide j not pretending to deep know- 

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