4 a Preface. 
dignified solicitation, yet with sympathy and welcome, the 
heavy laden, to lay down their burthens; and here take,— 
not indolent rest, but,—active, profitable, and useful em- 
ployment. To this she entices, urges, and animates, by dis- 
playing the benefits derived from it, to all engaged in the 
culture of our fields ; as well as to those who subsist and 
prosper on the fruits of the husbandman’s toils. She awa- 
kens their attention, and rouses their emulation and exertion, 
by casting enlivening rays, from the uplifted Torcn or 
Crres, on the exuberant Horn OF PLENTY ;—continually 
diffusing its blessings, and therefore constantly requiring to be 
replenished and supplied. 
PuBLIC GRATITUDE, hitherto lingering and dilatory, may, 
even thus late, rouse the GovERNMENT of our nation;—grown 
great and prosperous, on the fruits of the virtues and labours 
of our admired and lamented urro and patriot. The effu- 
sions of PATRIOTISM may yet rescue our country, from the 
stain of unpardonable and impolitic neglect, by animating 
PRIVATE CITIZENS to raise to his memory, 2 MONUMENT, ho- 
nourable to them; though (however highly decorated) less 
brilliant than that He had founded, for his country and himself. 
Should this desirable event occur,—let the fact be recorded, 
on the most conspicuous of its tablets,—that “THE ENCOUR- 
AGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT, AND INFORMA- 
TION, WAS AMONG THE FAVOURITE WISHES OF HIS HEART.” 
