4 6 GENERAL POSTSCRIPT. 



and if to thefe be added, what I have faid in the firfl book 

 concerning the falfe tafte of planting diftances, I am in hopes 

 I (hall not be thought to have treated this part of my fubje<5t 

 fuperficially. 



I would wim my reader to confider that the Plan of 

 this Poem differs very materially in -one refpecl: from that of 

 the Georgics of Virgil ; and when I fpeak merely of Plan, I 

 may hope, without appearing arrogant, to bring them to a 

 comparifon. His four books treat of four diftinct fubjedls; 

 Tillage, Planting, Breeding of Cattle, and Bees. He has no 

 introductory book which treats of the general Art of Agricul- 

 ture : Whereas this Poem, as appears from the analylis here 

 given, employs the firft book entirely on that general fubjec% 

 of which the three following are to be confidered only as illu- 

 -ilrations and amplifications : Where therefore that book had 

 furficiently explained any topic, more could not be added in 

 any fucceeding one without tautology. And this, I hope, 

 will fufficiently obviate the objection which has been made to 

 ..this part -of the third book* 



