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Tiie d^fire of meeting with Kliyogg, therefore, be- 

 came general. — When it was found with what frank- 

 nefs and good fcnfe he jfpoke, envy itfelf was conflrain^ 

 ed to do him jaliice, and men of fenfe and virtue gave 

 him their friend(bif). The wifeH: and belt infirudlcd cf 

 our magiflratcs did not dlfdain to converfe with him reC- 

 pe£ling ths improyerncnt of agriculture and many 

 fubjecls of cl vl\ orovernment. — I Ixid now an opportuai* 

 ty of admiiing his wonderful fagaclty, and how deeply 

 he had advanced in the art of penetrating into charac- 

 ters , He feized in a moment the diflindlive qualities 

 of each perfon ; a»nd in his different conferences foon 

 found whether tlie notice paid him was owing to curi- 

 ofity, to a love for truth, to vanity, or to a turn for 

 contradiction. — He (aw at the fame time, wiih the high- 

 efl: fatisfaiSlion, thsit his reaibnings did not fail to make 

 imprciTion ; and that he gained fufiicient influence to in- 

 duce him to hope, that he might be ufeful. No other 

 motive W2s now neceiTary to engage him to continue 

 frequently to vifit thofe, whofe difpofitions inclined 

 them to relifiii, and whofe fituation enabled them to af- 

 (Ifr, the plans for the public good, which he wiflied to 

 fee executed. 



Kliyogg had it particuWIy at heart to perfaade the 

 pcafants of his community to confent to inclofing their 

 common paRure ; which is an extenfivetratft of land, very 

 fvvampy and wet, and in its prefent Hate, of fma)! ad-^ 

 vantage ; but, in his opinion, when inclofed, capable of 

 furnifhtng every farmer with food for a rruich greater 

 number of cattle, and of augmenting manure in the 

 ^kme proportion, lb material to good culttire. 



Kliyc^g was fenilble that the Pbilofophical' Society 

 was occupied with vievv^ congenial to his own, and ani- 

 mated v/ith the fajne zeal. He cam« often to its aOcm- 

 blies, and communicated his ideas on the methods to be 

 pnrfued,in cafe they defired that agriculture (bould flour- 

 ifh.'T^He above all recommended their extending their 



complaifance 



