his family with milk, an article indispensably necessary 

 to the rearing of healthy children ; but also what more 

 might be requisite for raising potatoes, and other vegeta- 

 bles, cultivated at his leisure by the spade, affording an 

 agreeable and healthful change to his confined and seden- 

 tary occupation. 



The Legislature of these kingdoms all good men 

 and all well disposed subjects, are earnestly called upon to 

 unite in promoting the more complete cultivation of the 

 soil ; being the only system by which the comforts and the 

 happiness of the people can be advanced, and the future 

 existence o this country, as a kingdom, be effectually 

 secured against foreign foes and domestic incendiaries* 



PREFATORY 



