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should be happy could I think that your country will 

 derive some benefit from these reflections. I give 

 them the best chance of success in addressing them to 

 a person accustomed to join theory to practice, and 

 who will know how to modify them according to cir- 

 cumstances. I cannot conclude this letter without 

 returning my thanks for the obliging manner in which 

 you have given an account of my theory on the rota- 

 tion of crops, and upon which I receive every day 

 some strong confirmation. Your Journal appears to 

 me to be a model for Journals of that kind, and I have 

 read a great number of its articles with a lively inte- 

 rest." 



