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satiated with such a parade of charms : retire to repose on the 

 insipidity of common objects, and return another day, to gaze 

 with fresh admiration." The French nation appear to have 

 been duly sensible of the advantages which these travels were 

 calculated to produce upon their agriculture : in a Preface to 

 the translation of his works into the French language, in the 

 year 1801, we meet with the following passage: " There is 

 no person who does not recollect the general and agreeable 

 impression produced in France, by the travels of Arthur Young, 

 through the various provinces of that vast and rich country, 

 which unites in itself all that a numerous population and the 

 arts can add to the advantages of a climate the most happy- 

 National rivalry gave place to admiration at the works of this 

 new Triptolemus, who passed through Europe, for expanding 

 new lights upon an art the most useful to mankind. Geogra- 

 phers and naturalists had already given us a knowledge of the 

 general extent of France, and the disposition of its bassins, 

 which form its principal rivers, but the geoponic division of 

 its territory had never been traced in a manner so exact as it 

 has been done by Arthur Young ; that indefatigable and pene- 

 trating agriculturist has scrutinized it, even to the smallest 

 band of its soil, for determining its nature, and appreciating 

 its value. We see, with sparkling eyes, all the riches which 

 Nature has lavished with prodigality, although it is to an 

 Englishman that we are indebted for a knowledge of them." 



At this period he commenced a correspondence with General 

 Washington, which was afterwards published in a pamphlet, 

 entitled, " Letters from his Excellency General Washington, to 

 Arthur Young, Esq., containing an Account of his Husbandry, 

 his Opinions on various Questions in Agriculture, and many 

 Particulars of the Rural (Economy of the United States." 

 This period was also marked by another event upon which 

 Mr. Young always dwelt with pleasure, — the present of a 

 Spanish Merino ram from the King. " How many millions of 

 men are there," exclaims he, " that would smile, if I were to 

 mention the Sovereign of a great empire giving a ram to a 

 farmer, as an event that merited the attention of mankind : the 



