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LETTER 



FROM 



ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, Es^ 

 PRESIDENT OF THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW-YORK, 



T O 



ARTHUR rOUNG, Es^ 



THE pleafure and information I have received from your 

 various publications on Agricultural Subjeds, induce me to 

 contribute my mite to the fupport of your annals — a work 

 that has given me great fatisfadtion, though many parts of it 

 are calculated only for the meridian of England. The 

 happlnefs of man depends fo much upon the advancement of 

 agriculture, that every new difcovery, every improvement by 

 which the fruits of the earth are increafed, fhould be thrown 

 into the common flock ; and the man who has been fo fortunate 

 as to make them, Ihould thank God that he has been enabled, 

 in fome fort, to repay to fociety the debt he owes them for 

 the benefit he has himfelf received from the difcoveries of 

 others, to the great mafs of which his own, however important, 

 v/ill be infignificant. 



Nothing in this view can be more repugnant to the principles 

 of humanity and found philofophy, than thofe reflridive laws 



