ASR4CUf,TURAL JJUSEUINJ SSI 



^f tliena in the north, I am well informed, has increaserl 

 very nrach during halfa century past They progre>j&ed 

 slowly in other countries of Europe, where the establish 

 nd Clerjry liad great influence on the consciences of men, 

 and depended on tythes of grain for their living, they 

 'ised their ijillnence against the propagalio » of tl»e po- 

 tatoc. The famine and starvation blockade, whicli ac- 

 •Gompanied and |)roniotcd the French Revolution, gave 

 u spring to the cuUivation of the potatoe in that country, 

 and Count Rumford had before successfully introduced 

 them into Bavaria, It is expected that their general cu|. 

 tivation vviil tend greatly to increase the population of 

 at least the north of Europe. 



If the Tol-acco introduced by the same great man, 

 had met with so little o{)position at fnst, and not become 

 such a source of revenue ajiervvards, its first introdue- 

 tion would have been as little known as that of the more 

 ur-cfu! potatoe, 



I may, perhaps, hereafter send some observations on 

 ihe changes of the growth of Tinjbers, coniirming 

 what I see in your AJuseurn. 



Your obedient Servant. 



Wn FINDLEY* 



Merinos siiil improving in the United States — as con- 

 tained in a letler from the Hon. R. R. Lvingston, of 

 Clermout, ]Sev/-York, to Mr, Custis of Arlington, 



Dear Sir, Clermont, 22nd March, 1811. 



I received a few days since your favor of the 8th. I 

 am happy to learn by it that your expectations have 

 been answered in Hamilton. I doubt not that you wilt 

 jfind a mixture of the Merino blood an improvement 

 even to your long wooied sheep, and that you will im- 

 prove the quality without diminishing the quantity of 

 your wool. And to the Smiths' Islanders, it will cer- 

 tainly do no harni, it will render tjieir fleeecg do^seri and. 



