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doubt salutary to the body politic ; but the tenacity of 

 landowners has, under all difficulties, opposed a successful 

 resistance to a sweeping revolution. Any one who looks 

 into Fuller's Worthies, or Sir William Dugdale's Catalogues 

 of Commissioners, or into the indexes attached to Plott's 

 and other county histories, will find the old names attached 

 to the old places to a considerable extent. Our hope and 

 belief is, that, notwithstanding present difficulties, the 

 hereditary owners of land will, by a continued exertion of 

 the energy and prudence which carried those from whom 

 they inherit their possessions through all changes, continue 

 to maintain their social position. 



The reproach of British agriculture, that she had no 

 literature, is fast passing away. The works which we have 

 placed at the head of this article would be creditable to any 

 science and to any age. We are not acquainted with the 

 agricultural publications north of Tweed, but we have been 

 told that they have great merit. We constantly see with 

 wonder and admiration the variety and spirit by which the 

 Royal Agricultural Journal is sustained. The Agricultural 

 Gazette, attached to the Gardener's Chronicle, contains 

 almost weekly some practical article of sterling value. 

 The letters of the Times Commissioner have ably supplied 

 a deficiency which has existed ever since the time of 

 Arthur Young's agricultural tour. They have informed the 

 general body of agriculturists of the varieties of practice 

 which have obtained a permanent footing in various dis- 

 tricts, causing each to contribute its quota of knowledge 

 and experience to the general stock of information. In 

 offering our humble mite, we are, indeed, proud of our 

 fellow-labourers. 



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