700 
ought to have referred us to every vo- 
lumé which has contributed to enrich his 
own: he has given us this reference only 
occasionally. 
Whether the public is much benefited 
by thus pouring, as Sterne calls it, from 
one phial into another, we are not quite 
decided in our opinion. The books from 
which’a variety of these Essays are taken 
are not dear. ‘I'he Agicultural Surveys, 
indeed, are “numerous and bulky, and 
often have a small kernel to a coarse 
large husk, which we are obliged to any 
body for removing. . 
As‘a colléction we do not hesitate to 
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RURAL ECONOMY AND GARDENING. 
speak highly of the present: theoretical 
and practical agriculture are blended to« 
gether, very few trivial papers are ade 
mitted, many are the production of Dr. 
Hunter’s own ingenious pen; and where: 
such men as Mr. Curtis, Dr. Anderson, 
the Earl of Winchelsea, Mr. Henry, 
Mr. Somerville, Mr. Forsyth, Dr. Wil- 
kinson, Dr. Garnet, Sir John Sinclair, 
Mr. Kent, Arthur Young, &c. &c. &c.; 
where men of so much science and expe- 
rience are laid under contribution, much 
ingenious speculation and valuable in- 
struction may be very confidently _ex- 
pected. 
un Ue The Farmer’s Magazine, a Periodieal Work, exclusively devoted to Agriculture 
vista and Rural Affairs. Vol. U1. &vo. pp. 546. 
WE are disposed to think that this is 
an useful and: well-supported publica- 
tion. One does not look for the flowers 
of rhetoric, and the grace of composi- 
tion, in a farmer’s magazine; when a 
gentleman has mude any successful ex- 
periment in the fattening of his sheep 
and oxen, or in the management of his 
turnip and potatoe crops, the particulars 
and result of which he is desirous of 
making known to the body of farmers, 
he must descend a little, and accommo- 
date, to use the vulgar phrase, his con- 
versation to his company. A consider- 
able portion of these communications, 
too, are from farmers themselves; and it 
must be acknowledged, that this class of 
correspondents take particular care not 
to render their precepts or explanations 
obscure by consulting brevity too much. 
In the pages before us there is certainly 
a great deal about it and about it, a great 
deal of unprofitable chat; but as the 
work is exclusively devoted to agricultural 
and rural affairs, it is not likely to be 
read with any high expectation or avis 
dity by any but agriculturalists them- 
selves. Now, after the labours of the 
day, when the tired farmer takes his pipe 
in one hand and his magazine in the 
other, he goes on and on, whiff after 
whiff, and sentence after sentence, and it 
really is of very little consequence to him 
whether he comes to the end of his chap- 
ter first, or the end of his pipe. 
A number of this work appears pe- 
riodically once in three months; the ori- 
ginal communications are -numerous ; 
and when we see such names as Dr. 
Hunter and Sir John Sinclair attached 
to some of them, we may infer consider- 
able respectability as to the general con- 
duct of the publication. Very ample 
and useful reports are given of the state 
of agriculture in different parts of the 
kingdom, more particularly in the North ; 
works connected with rural economy are 
reviewed ; dissertations, controversies, 
hints, queries, and replies, fill up the 
pages, and help to relieve the monotony. 
Art. III. 4 General View of the Agriculture of the County of Peebles, with various 
Suggestions as to the Means both of local and general Improvement of Agriculture. » By the 
Rev. Cuarves Finprater, Minister of the Parish of Newlands, in the County of 
Peebles. With a,Map of the County, and other Engravings. 8vo. pp. 413. 
THIS report was drawn up at the 
solicitation of Sir J..Sinclair for the board 
of agriculture ; from the occurrence of 
some circumstances with which the pub- 
lic is uninterested, however, it is not pub- 
lished under their sanction; but for the 
sake of uniformity and facility of refe- 
rence, it is nevertheless divided into the 
chapter and sections which are prescrib- 
ed by the board for county reports. 
1 tO sau! 
The county of Peebles or Tweeddale 
is bounded upon the north by Mid Lo- 
thian ; upon the east by Selkirk ; upon 
the south by Dumfries; upon the west 
by Lanark. Its greatest length from 
N. to S. is about 30 miles; its greatest 
breadth from E.to W. about 20. It 
contains 229,778 English or 183,823 
Scottish acres: the real surface, however, 
of so mountainous a country myst con- 
