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planning the crops to bo made upon its fields. The engineer 

 consummates no project until his map is accurately made; 

 the builder commences no structure without his plan, with 

 all his specifications before him; nor does the seaman under- 

 take his voyage without consulting his chart, and becoming 

 familiar with his course and soundings; and so, equally, 

 should the farmer have every acre of his ground, in its posi- 

 tion and topography, brought under his own eye, to consult 

 it at any moment that it may be required. ED. 



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 ' Down went the Fences, notwithstanding." 



