INTRODUCTORY VIEW 



OF THE 



SUBJECTS. 



T T 7HOEVER shall give himself the trou- 

 ble to look over the contents of this 

 work, will perceive that the SUBJECT, taken 

 in the general, is far from being unimpor- 

 tant. Perhaps no RURAL TOPIC is, at the 

 present time, more worthy of attention ; whe- 

 ther considered in a private, or in a national 

 point of view. I shall not, therefore, apo- 

 logize for presuming to solicit the Reader's 

 attention to what, perhaps, lie may be much 

 interested in ; because, according to the com- 

 mon phrase, there have already been so 

 many books written on the subject* On the 



