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1775.— Andkuson, James, \A..V). — {continued). 



A I'r.utical Treatise on Peat Moss, considered as in its Natural State fitted for 

 affording Fuel, or as susceptible of being con\-erted into Mould, capable of 

 yielding abundant Crops of useful Produce, with full Directions for 

 converting and cultivating it as a Soil. Edinburgh, 1794. 8vo. 



.\ General \'ie\v of the Agricu'ture and Rural Economy of the County of Aberdeen, 

 with Observations on the Means of its Iniprt)vement. Chiefly drawn up for 

 the Board of Agriculture. In two parts. Edinburgh, 1794. 8vo. 



-A pra-tical Treatise on Dra ning Bogs and Swampy Grounds; with cursorv 

 Remarks on the Originality of Elkington's mode of Draining. London, 

 1794. 8vo. 



Rerre.'tions in Agriculture, Natural History, &c., &c. London, 1799. 6 vols. Svo. 



1776. — HoAii-:, Hknkv, usually called Lord Kaimes, an eminent Scotch lawyer, philosopher, 

 and critic, \\as born at Kaimes, in Berwickshire, 1696; died 1782. He 

 farmed his own estate in Berwickshire many years ; he afterwards removed 

 to Blair Drummond, near Stirling, where he made various and extensive 

 improvements. 



The Gentleman Farmer; being an attempt to improve Agriculture by subjecting it 

 to the test of Rational Principles. Edinburgh. 8vo. Another edition 1779. 



Observations concerning Shallow Ploughing. (Ess. Phys. and Lit. iii. c. 68.) 



The Farmer's Magazine. 5 vols. 



1777. — Cl.xkke, Cuthbekt. 



The true Theory and Practice of Husbandry, deduced from Philosophical 

 Researches and Experience, &c. London. 4to. 



Black, James, of Morden, Surrey. 



Observations on the Tillage of the Earth, and on the Theory of Instruments 

 adapted to this end. London. 4to. 



1778. — Forbes, Fkanxis. 



The extensive Practice of the New Husbandrv. London. Svo. Another edition 



1786. 

 The Improvements of Waste Lands. London, 1778. Svo. 



WuiHT, Andrew, a farmer in East Lothian 



The Present State of the Husbandry in Scotland. Edinburgh. 6 vols. Svo. 



-Marshai.i., William, a native of Yorkshire; he was some years in the West 



Indies, as a planter; returned about 1775, and took a farm in Surrey; went 

 down into Norfolk as agent to Sir HarDord Harbord's estate in 1780 ; he 

 left this situation in 1784, and went and resided at Stafford, near the junction 

 of the four counties of Leicester, Warwick, Stafford, and Derby, where he 

 remained till 1786, occupied in collecting materials for his "Economical 

 Surveys," and in printing some of his works. From this time till about 

 1S08 he resided chiefly in Clement's Inn, London, in winter, and visited 

 different parts of the country dur ng summer. He spent one summer in 

 Perthshire, chiefly on the Earl of Breadalbane's estates at Taymouth, and 

 partly also on the Earl of Mansfield's at Scone. He proposed arrangements 

 for the tenantable land, and also the park and woody scenery on various 

 estates ; and finally retired to a considerable property he purchased in his 

 native country, in the vale of Cleveland, in 1808, where he died at an 

 advanced age in 1819. He was a man of little education, but of a strong and 

 steady mind; and pursued in the most consistent manner, from the year 

 17S0 to his death, the plan he originally laid down : that of collecting and 

 condensing the agricultural practices of the different counties of England, 

 with a view to a general work on " Landed Property," which he published ; 

 another on " Agriculture," which he did not live to complete; and a " Rural 

 Institute," in which he was supplanted by the Board of Agriculture. 

 .Minutes of Agriculture, made on a Farm of 300 acres, of various soils, near 

 Croydon, Surrey. London. 4to. 



