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*> To 



THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 

 THE LORD PANMURE, 



^T &C iVt*. &C* 



MY DEAR LORD, 



FROM the interest you constantly take in 

 everything connected with agriculture, and the benefit 

 which, in this part of Scotland, the practice of it has de- 

 rived from your example and munificence, there is no one 

 to whom a work having reference to that subject, may 

 more appropriately be inscribed. 



With this conviction, and with a lively remem- 



brance of friendship early evinced, always unvaried, and 

 41 of which I continue to receive very gratifying proofs, I 



have the greatest pleasure in respectfully dedicating to 



1 your Lordship, the following relation of my visit to the 

 ^ United States and Upper Canada. 



Forty years have revolved since I undertook a pe- 



^destrian task one of the first in which I was engaged 

 - on a match with the late Captain Fletcher of Balinshoe, 

 x -in Forfarshire, for the large stake of 5000 guineas a 



