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devoted to less important objects, 
and occasioned our rapid progress 
and improvement in them. The 
study, however, of agriculture, ow- 
ing to the exertions of our author, 
assisted by the Board of Agriculture 
in England, and of Sir John Sin- 
clair in Scotland, bids fair to be- 
come a favourite pursuit; and we 
-have no doubt of soon making 
equal strides to perfection in it, 
The Annals of Agriculture, a 
monthly publication carried on 
under the immediate management 
and care of our author, has certain- 
Jy contributed much to the dissemi- 
nation of this species of knowledge, 
by forming a point of union to 
which the inteiligent farmer can 
resort, either to receive or commn- 
nicate information. The agricul- 
tural world is also indebted to our 
author for a Farming Tour in Ire- 
land, which though the only book 
upon that subject, and containing 
many interesting particulars, is, we 
believe, but little known. 
The first volume of the work 
now before us, contains the jour- 
nal or diary of our author’s tour in 
France, Italy, and Spain; in this 
journal are contained many inte- 
resting observations on the face 
and products of the countries thro’ 
which he passed, and upon the man- 
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ners, customs, and amusements of 
the inhabitants. 
In the second volume, Mr. Young 
throws the principal subjects be- 
longing to the leading and predo- 
minant object of his view, namely 
agriculture, into distinct chapters, 
in which he treats. of the extent, 
soil, and face of the country, cli- 
mate, produce, rent, and price of 
land, courses of ‘crops, irrigation, 
meadows, lucerne, sanfoin, pines, 
inclosures, tenantry, size of farms, 
sheep, capital employed in husban- 
dry, the price of provisions, labour, 
and produce of France; of po- 
pulation, police, corn, commerce, 
n anufactures, taxation, and con- 
cluding observations on the revo- 
lution, and the probable effects it 
would have on the general interests 
of the kingdom. On this variety 
of interesting topics, much valuable 
information is given, founded on 
authentic documents and accurate 
returns. 
On the whole, we cannot take 
leave of our lively traveller, with- 
out expressing our obligations to 
him for a vast deal of light on agri- 
cultural and political subjects, in- 
terspersed with much amusing de- 
taii of the character and state of 
~society in the countries he visit- 
ed, 
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