68 ESSx\YS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Art. III. 



Obfervations upon the foregmng Paper concer-^ 

 niug Shallow Ploughing^ ^yLoRoKAMEs*. 



HOWEVER much fhallow plough- 

 ing may have prevailed in parti- 

 cular fpots, or even in a whole county, 

 one will be apt to fufpedl that it is owing 

 to neceflity or indolence, efpecially as 

 the oppofite practice is every where a- 

 doptcd in theory. At the fame time, 

 every man of fcience muft be ac- 

 quainted with many favourite topics, 

 tliat, after a long eftablifhment, have 

 been overturned by the mod fatisfadory 

 ex peri 17- ems. And among the numerous 

 maxims in art, as well as in fcience, that 

 ai prefent pafs current, it is probable 

 that they would not all of them ftand 

 the tell of accurate and bold inquiries. 



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