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efcape this contamination and diminution, if their 

 feeds are equally purified. 



I am, with great efleem, 



your refpeftful friend, 



JOHN WAGSTAFFE. 



Norwich, 1796. 



Art. XXVII. 



^eriei refpeBing Draining Landsy dejlroying 

 Mofs, and planting Coppices. 



[In a Letter to the Secretary.] 

 Sir, Piercefield near Chepjlow^ Jan. ijtk, 1796. 



TN paffing through Briftol a few days ago, I took 

 ■*■ an opportunity of providing myfelf with the 

 feven volumes of the Letters and Papers of the Bath 

 Agriculture Society, expefting that I Ihould derive 

 from them confiderable information, as well as amufe- 

 ment; and although, from the very curfory view 

 which as yet I have had an opportunity of taking 

 of this colle£lion of papers, I mull: confefs that I 

 have not (generally fpeaking) any reafon to think 

 I fliall be much difoppointed ; yet I mull at the fame 

 lime be candid enough to acknowledge, that on fome 



parts 



