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gularity. We live to learn, and ^ to make im 

 provements, and every improvement must, at 

 first, be a singularity. 



1.59. The utility, which I thought would arise 

 from the hastening out of the First Part, in 

 June last, previous to the time for sowing 

 Swedish Turnips, induced me to make an ugly 

 breach ii*. the order of my little work ; and, as 

 it generally happens, that when disorder is 

 once begun, it is very difficult to restore order ; 

 so, in this case, I have been exceedingly puzzled 

 to give to the matter of these two last Parts 

 such an arrangement as should be worthy of a 

 work, which, whatever may be the character of 

 its execution, treats of subjects of great public 

 interest. However, with the help of the Index, 

 which I shall subjoin to the Third Part, and 

 which .will comprise a reference to the divers 

 matters in all the three parts, and in the making 

 of which Index an additional proof of the ad 

 vantage of numbering the paragraphs has ap 

 peared; with the help of this Index the reader 

 will, I am in hopes, be enabled to overcome, with 

 out any very great trouble, the inconveniences 

 naturally arising from a want of a perfectly good 

 arrangement of the subjects of the work. 



160. As the First Part closes with a pro 

 mise to communicate the result of my experi 

 ments of this present year, I begin the Second 



