aoo View of the Agriculture of Torlipnye. April 



poflelTes a thorough knowledge of the feveral branches of 

 pracfUcal hulbandry. None of thefe works have yielded 

 us greater fatisfa6\ion ; and few of them have fhown 

 fuch inftances, either of diligent refearch, or accurate 

 detail. 



N. 



General Vieiu of the Agriculture of the Wejl Riding of 

 Yorkfyire. Surveyed by Mejfrs Rennie^ Bronuti^ and 

 Shirreffy in 1793. With obfervations on the means of 

 its improvement y and additional information ftnce receiv- 

 ed. Draiun up for the confuleration of the Board of 

 Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By RoBERT 

 Brown, Farmer at Murkle^ near Haddington^ Scot* 

 land. 8vo, 428 pages. Watfon, Edinburgh j Nicol, 

 idfc. London, 1799. 



(By a Gentleman ik Yorkshire.) 



It mull be confefTed, that the prefent grievous fear- 

 city of the neceflaries of life, may appear, in the eyes of 

 the common people, a bad comment on the labours of 

 the Board of Agriculture, and all other public inflitu- 

 tions afFe£ling thefe obje6ls j but, alas ! they poflefs no 

 controul over phyfical caufes, no means of fupplying 

 the want of funlhine, or of tempering the excefs of 

 cold and moifture, by which, in fpite of every endeavour 

 of the moft judicious, the varied products of the foil 

 are liable to injury and diminution. Perhaps, we fhall 

 be under the neceflity of concluding, that the Board of 

 Agriculture has done what can be done in exilling cir- 

 cumftances : and much praife is due to its late able 

 and indefatigable prefident, Sir John Sinclair, for the 

 pains he has taken, in the acquifition of a mafs of moft 

 ufeful information and inftrudlion on the general rural 

 economy of the ifiand. This has clearly afcertained. 

 what are the real obftacles to more extenfivs improve- 

 ment ; and it is now left to the Government, and to 

 thofe called the leading interefts of the country, where 

 alone the power refides, to remove thofe obllacles as 

 fpeedily as pofiible. it is a moil weighty refponfibility, 



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