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agriculture, which with others he finds 

 to be more advanced in many ficuacions, 

 than the average of that of the Engliih ; 

 eftimating the latter as it is exhibited 

 in the accounts pubiifhed by the Agri- 

 cultural Society of Great Britain. As 

 a proof of his own fkili in agriculture, 

 this refpeclable perfon had fo improved 

 a piece of neglected land given to him 

 by his parifhioners, by the ufe of 

 blue marie found on the fpot ; that he 

 foon fold it for a very remarkable price. 

 Nothing could be more pointed to the 

 moft fuperficial obferver, than the dif- 

 ference between this land, and the un- 

 improved land ftill fuifered to remaift 

 in its neighborhood. 



The materials in queftion were exr 

 tra&ed 01 abridged by this perfon froni. 

 a Ger^nan work originally pubiifhed by 

 Dr. Hirzelf . They were prefented to 

 the Editor in a French drefs, and arc 

 now with, fome farther abridgment firft 

 tranflated into Englifh. £. j 



* Tbe title given to in French is, *♦ Un coup d' oeil fa^ T harmonic & 

 ^* la noblefle dans lesdifferentes clafles dcs homnnes ;** or " A ficetch corti 

 ^ ccrning lijrrr.ony and nobility of charai^cr in different claffes of raen.'* 



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