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Art. XXV. 



Remarks on the County Survey Sy with a "Letter to 

 Sir 'John Sinclair on Draining, 



Dear Sir, Cotfield near Lath, July I'^th, 1795. 



I HAVE read with much fatisfaftion Mr. Bil- 

 lingsley's account of Somerfetfliire, and beg 

 you will thank that gentleman, in my name, when 

 you fee him, for the pleafure it has afforded to me. 

 It was not to be expefted that all the counties fliould 

 be fo well done, but it is a great matter to have got 

 lb many executed in a way that does credit to the 

 country. Had the whole been done as Somerfet and 

 Wilts, it would have formed a very valuable body of 

 information to future ages; as they are, perhaps, 

 never was there given fo perfeft an account of the 

 prefent flate of agriculture in any other nation on 

 the globe. 



I fend you inclofed a copy of a letter to Sir John 

 Sinclair, on a fubjeft that, after having lain dor- 

 mant for twenty years, I did not think I Ihould have 

 had occafion to bring before the publick in this 

 manner. The faft is, I was greatly furprifed to fee 

 ? oool. voted by parliament as a premium to a roan for 

 n.nQ: a very fimple mode of draining in certain 

 myfelf had, by a very moderate flretch 

 difcovered and carried into effeft about 



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