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limited experience, and iminstructed examples of merely 

 practical husbandmen. 



Whilst the miseries and dangers of war, create a necessity 

 for characters distinguished in the arts and works of de- 

 struction ; and portraits of heroes are exhibited, as remem- 

 brances of achievements, — attractive, — because they are 

 dazzling and brilliant ; — we have deemed it as meritoriously 

 exemplary, and as highly obligatory, to hand down to pos- 

 terity, (so far as our humble efforts can accomplish the agree- 

 able task,) a memorial of retiring, yet conspicuous worth and 

 talents, employed in the equally honourable, and far more de- 

 sirable and salutary, Arts of Peace. 



