8o Mr. Living fton*s Experimenii on Liicernf. 



better than it found it ; which will even bear pafturing ; having 

 myfelf remarked two plants in a^ common paflure which had 

 defied the bite of cattle for upwards of twenty years, one of 

 which is flill alive. 



Thefe confiderations have induced a convidion in my mind, 

 that the man who introduces a plant which promifes to be 

 fo important to agriculture, will have a better claim to the 

 gratitude of his country than any other, that one only excepted, 

 whofe military and civil virtues have afforded us the means of 

 purfuing in peace, our rullic labours. I confefs that I am not 

 unambitious of that honor — to the rich I have facilitated the 

 means of procuring the feed, which has hitherto been very 

 rare here ; fmall parcels I have diflributed to common farmers 

 whofe exertions I have ftimulated, by fhewing the flourifhing 

 ftate of my little field ; nor can I conclude without addreffing 

 myfelf (in the words of the gofpel) to every member of the 

 corporation who is blefl with equal or greater means " go thou 

 and do Ukexuije." 



