Dita ll 
Ir is only by confining to particular fubjects the obferva- 
tion, and thought, and genius of thofe who cultivate them, 
that thefe fubjeéts can ever be expected to be brought to per- 
feGtion. Such encouragements, therefore, as might induce well- 
informed perfons to apply themfelves wholly to particular de- 
partments of agriculture, may be confidered as an effential 
part of a good fyftem of national education. 
Of infirultion in mining, 
Mrnrne is the moft direct road’ to wealth; but, like the” 
defcent to Avernus, few who pafs it tread back their fteps. 
Tat Ireland: abownds: with valuable mines, we are affured 
by one of the ableft mineralogifts in Europe, whofe birth: 
and refidence this country boafts and enjoys. But fhall we - 
tempt men who deferve well of fociety to facrifice their lives 
at the fhrine of national fplendour? 
I suvpper to think how many thoufand human beings, . 
unconviéted of any crime, are at this moment plunged in - 
mines from which they are never, perhaps, to reafcend; whofe 
eyes “ roll in vain to find light’s piercing ray;” who never 
“ wander where the Mufes haunt, clear fpring, or fhady grove, 
« or funny hill;” fhut out from the theatre of nature, from 
thofe refrefhments which fhe fpreads with fuch a lavifh hand 
upon the lap of earth; and doomed to exchange a melancholy 
and fickly life for an untimely death. 
WouLD- 
