^26 "Extracts from the Georgical Leite?^, <Sc. 



f>eriod in queflion. Afterwards, when promotions and remo« 

 rals brought about almofl a total change of field officers and fub- 

 filterns, Dr Halyburton quitted tiie regiment, and returned to 

 Britain. He was tlien nominated chaplain to an eighty gun lliip 

 cf war ; but in this lituation he did not long continue. 



The future life of Dr Haljburton cannot be well elucidated ; 

 tut it is believed he chiefly refided in London, which is alTured- 

 ly the bell receptacle for a iJiian of letters. That his pen was 

 not idle during his refidence in the metropolis maybe fafely af- 

 firmed, though few of liis productions can be exprefsly conde- 

 fcended upon. It is well afcertained, that a fmstil tra(^, 

 called the Memoirs cf MagopicOy was wrote by him at an early 

 ftage, W'hen he was a candidate for holy orders. The Georgical 

 Letters were printed in 1782, and contain a number of senlible 

 and intelligent obferyaticns, mixed with others of a differerrt de- 

 fer iption. 



When advanced in life, Dr Halyburton returned to his native 

 country, and refided with his brotlier (then alive), and other 

 friends in Eaft Lothian. In a woid, he finifhed his life at the 

 nge of eighty years, in the very houfe, perhaps in the very 

 loom, wdiere he drew his firll breath ; circiimil:ances that rarely 

 iiappen in the lot of few people, particularly thole of learning 

 f.nd geniu;:;, 



N. 



'JLxtr acts from the Georgical Letters of Doctor Halyhurton. 



Herodotus, as I remember, relates, that in his time ths 

 Vv^heat grown on the plains of Babylon yielded 300, 350, and 

 400 fold ; that tlie natives reckoned the first a bad, the second 

 an indifferent, and the third a good increase ; and that the 

 leaves of the wheat were three and four inclies broad. As the* 

 historian mentions nothing singular in the culture, one con 

 eludes that the corn had been sown in the common way of ran- 

 dom broad cast. 



We read in Holy Writ of an hundredfold after random sow- 

 ing expressed in the plainest terms. Though in parable, there 

 i-s no appearance of figure. It means a not very common, yet 

 a known product. 



In the province of New Jersey i-^ peck is the quantity 

 -commonly sown at random on an acre, and i^ bushels, or forty 

 fold, the moderate increase. Yet such wheat has tillered 

 but little, and is very short eared. V/hat wonder ? A 



