ADVERTISEMENT. 
Tue publick is here prefented with the Seventh Volume 
of Letters, Papers, and Extracts from the Correfpondence 
of the Bath and Weft of England Society: the publication 
of which, from incidents not forefeen, has been feveral 
months later than was, in courfe, expected. 
Of the contents, notwithftanding that inequality of merit 
to which every book of this nature is incident, the com- 
mittee of fuperintendance hopes the publick will not think 
unfavourably. “The repeated and flattering proofs which 
the Society has received of the publick partiality to its vo- 
fumes, have been noticed with pleafure, and are hereby 
again acknowledged with gratitude and refpect. 
This Society, which has now been eftablifhed near eigh- 
teen years, has uniformly exerted its endeavours to pro- 
mote, as its main object, the improvement of Agriculture, 
and thofe other branches of knowledge which appeared 
to be moft nearly connected with it. The grand induce- 
ment to this bent of attention, was a conviction that fuch 
a purfuit was moft important to the fundamental interefts of 
the nation. 
Since the publication of the fixth volume, a ftrong tefti- 
mony has been given to the national importance of agricul- 
tural 
