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they went to the country, they would have an opportu- 

 nity of direfting their attention to the moil important 

 inquiries, and of coUe^^ing information on a fubject, in 

 which, in various refpeds, they mult feel tht-nifelve* 

 deeply ititerelled. Such an advantage ought certainly to 

 be reftri^ted to thofe who are fubfcribers to the propofed 

 inftitution ; and muft appear, to every intelligent perfon, 

 a circumllance of the higheil importance to any indivi- 

 dual refiding in the metropolis, in the adjoining villages, 

 or in any confidcrable town in the kingdom. 



Explanation of the Maiiner in luhich the propofed Plan is to 

 be carried into Kxecutioti. 



Though a capital of 80, cool, would be necelTary to 

 carry the propofed meafure into complete efFe£l ; yet, 

 from 10, cool, to 2o,oool. will be fufficient to give the 

 plan a fair beginning, either with an Experimental Farm, 

 or an extenfive Plantation, or with both, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the metropolis. It was never intended to 

 let the meafure drop, if the whole capital could not be 

 raifed at once ; for, however defirable it might be to 

 carry a great fcheme into execution, becaufe it com- 

 mands the attention of thofe who take a concern in its 

 management, and muft neceflarily produce more public 

 good; yet the important objedl certainly is, to lay a folid 

 foundation, which may afterwards be extended, as cir- 

 cumftances will admit of. 



As foon as a proper farm can be eftablifhed near the 

 metropolis, accompanied with an extenfive plantation, 

 the profit of which muft at leaft infure indemnification 

 to the fubfcribers, there will then be a model held forth, 

 which every county in the kingdom may adopt, that 

 approves of fuch an idea; and it is, without doubt, much 

 to be wiflied for, that feveral Experimental Farms and 

 Plantations were eftablifhed in various parts of the coun- 

 try, as branches of the fame inftitution ; not only for 

 the purpofe of comparing the refult of the fame experi- 

 ments, carried on by different people, and in a diverfity 

 of foils and climates, (by which a fpirit of emulation 

 would be excited among the managers appointed to con- 

 dudt them), but alfo as it would have the happy eiFc£t 



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