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upon actual experiments. And, as to what this Board 

 has published, at the public expense, under the name 

 of Communications, I defy the world to match it as a 

 mass of illiterate, unintelligible, useless trash. The 

 only paper, published by this Board, that I ever thought 

 worth keeping, was an account of the produce from a 

 single cow, communicated by Mr. Cramp, the jail- 

 keeper of the County of Sussex ; which contained very 

 interesting and wonderful facts, properly authenticated, 

 and stated in a clear manner. 



118. Arthur Young is blind, and never attends the 

 Board. Indeed, sorrowful to relate, he is become a 

 religious fanatic, and this in so desperate a degree as 

 to leave no hope of any possible cure. In the pride of 

 our health and strength, of mind as well as of body, we 

 little dream of the chances and changes of old age. 

 Who can read the " 2 ravels in France, Spai7i, and 

 Italy," and reflect on the present state of the admirable 

 writer's mind, without feeling some diffidence as to 

 what may happen to himself. 



119. Lord Hardwicke, who is now the President 

 of the Board, is a man, not exceeding my negro, either 

 in experience or natural abilities. A parcel of court- 

 sycophants are the Vice-Presidents. Their committees 

 and correspondents are a set of justices of the peace, 

 nabobs become country-gentlemen, and parsons of the 

 worst description. And thus is this a mere political 

 job ; a channel for the squandering of some thousands 

 a year of the people's money upon worthless men, who 

 ought to be working in the fields, or mending " His 

 Majesty's Highways." 



120. Happily, politics, in this country, have nothing 

 to do with agriculture ; and here, therefore, I think I 

 have a chance to be fairly heard. I should, indeed, 

 have been heard in England ; but, I really could never 

 bring myself to do any thing tending to improve the 

 estates of the oppressors oi" my country ; and the same 

 consideration now restrains me from communicating 

 information, on the subject of timber trees, which woulJl 

 be of immense benetit to England ; and which infor- 

 mation 1 shall reserve, till the tyranny shall be at an 

 end. Castlereagh, in the fullness of liis stupidity, pro- 



