5ect. VI. Agriculture and Vegetation, io t 



SECT. VI. 



Plan for the further improvement cf agri- 

 culture. 



THUS I have endeavoured to fhow, that 

 agriculture is not fo uncertain and un- 

 fcientifical an art as is commonly thought; 

 but is reducible, like other arts, to fixed 

 unalterable principles. I have already look- 

 ed back, and confidered the impediments 

 which have lain in the way of its progrels 

 to fome degree of perfection. I mall now 

 look forward to fee how thefe may be beft 

 remedied, and in what manner we can aflift 

 it in its progrefs. 



AGRICULTURE does not take its rife 

 originally from reafon, but from fact and 

 experience, It is a branch of natural phi- 

 lofophy, and can only be improved from 

 the knowledge of facts, as they happen in 

 nature. It is by attending to thefe facts 

 that the other branches of natural philo- 



fophy 



