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| Articie VI. 
On the Properties and Ufe of Mangel. 
[To THE SECRETARY.] 
SIR, 
HE honour I have received in being elected 
a member of the Bath Agricultural Society, 
I muft attribute in part to the kindnefs of Dr. 
Lettfom, to whom I have candidly reported every 
thing which has occurred in my endeavours to cul- 
tivate, to the beft advantage, that valuable root the 
Mangel-Wurzel; his manner of introducing which 
marks his philanthropy fo ftrongly, that were it 
poflible to obliterate the feries of benevolent actions 
which have diftinguifhed his character, I fhould 
ftill feel an exultation, in having my name men- 
tioned with his in this purfuit. Iam even proud of 
having been called “ The Muzzle-Fuzzel Knight,” 
_by fome of my neighbours, who wifhed to place 
me ina ridiculous light, for having attempted in 
vain to enforce the ufe of coal-bufhels in retail trade, 
correfponding with thofe by which the duty is paid, 
The difference of a heap ona circle 19% inches 
diameter, or on one of 16 inches, is no trifle, efpe- 
cially to the poor; the care of whom is, I hope, not 
fo foreign to the views of the Bath Society, as this 
digreffion is to the culture of Mangel-Wurzel; 
my firft trial of which was in the year 1788: 
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