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was incomplete, he determined to undertake a third expedition, 

 and he accordingly again quitted Bradfield, on the 2d of June, 

 1789, in a one-horse chaise, as he had before found it extremely 

 inconvenient to convey specimens" of any remarkable soil, of 

 manufactures, and wool, Sfc, on horseback. During these three 

 tours he passed through every province of France, resided 

 some time at Paris, at the Duke of Liancourt's, in the midst of 

 the revolution ; he viewed the greater part of Lombardy, so 

 interesting for its pasturage ; and, in his first journey, he made 

 an extensive excursion into Spain. In consequence of his health 

 having sustained a severe shock, from a fever that attacked him, 

 in the autumn of 1790, these travels were not published until 

 the year 1792, when they appeared under the title of " Travels 

 during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789, undertaken more par- 

 ticularly with a view of ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, 

 Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France ;" 

 in two volumes, quarto. During this interval he made an 

 effort in practical agriculture, which deserves to be recorded 

 on account of its importance ; he was the first person who 

 commenced the cultivation of artificial grasses, which he per- 

 formed by collecting the seed by hand, and sowing it, altliough 

 the merit of it has been unjustly claimed by others ; he intro- 

 duced more especially the dactylus glomeratus, or cock's foot, 

 and the cynosurus crisfatus, or crested dog's tail grass. 



His French travels are superior in style and interest to his 

 Irish tour : they consist of two distinct parts ; the first volume 

 contains his journal, the second, a series of essays upon the 

 principal objects that he had observed. His diary is written 

 in a familiar and easy style, and his descriptions are so agree- 

 ably circumstantial and unreserved, and constantly enlivened 

 with such smart and unaffected badinage, that the reader 

 becomes one of the party, and cheerfully attends him through 

 his route with all the familiarity of an old acquaintance, par- 

 ticipates in all his embarrassments, laughs with him at the 

 follies he witnesses, and partakes of all the amusements, and 

 the agreeable and instructive society, to which his celebrity 

 introduced him. I regret that the space allotted for thi» 



