APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



The Preface given by Arthur 7'oung^ Efqiiire^ to that 

 part of the Rural Socrates^ tranjlated and publifhcdtn 

 Englijh^ under hn^ direClhn. 



SOME lime fmce I c^rew ttp ibe preceding effays*', I wet vvlili a ffoaU 

 work in the P'rench language, entitled te Socrate Ruflijue. \ peruf- 

 e3 it with great pleafure ; furprifecl that fo uncommon a relation fhould 

 bothave attra^ed the attention of ihofe gentlemen, vyho read the modern 

 ■French aathors, with a view to difcover thofe that promife beft for tranC- 

 lation : but by not feeing this ruftic phiiofopher in an Englifh drefs, I ajr,. 

 prebend the work is not included in that number. — The merit and un- 

 doubted utility cf it have detei'mir^ed r/ie to procure a tranflation ; that 

 the public iDight not be depcived of the k)fs of fuch an example, from the 

 concurrence of thofe comoion circumftances, which generally decide this 

 negle^l of foreign books, w.hcn deferving of attention ; fuch as an impro- 

 per tafte (relauve to up J in tranilaiors, or the ideas of bookfellers con- 

 Cerning their profit, ' 



The work is pieculiarly conne^ed with the general caft of the preced- 

 ing fuhjeOs, vis; the ecoiiorKical manageerent of a farm : it enlarges on 

 fojneof therp, and'prefsnts other ideas of indifputabl« ufc. Several parts 

 cf condudi, which I haVe omitted, are here enlarged upon ; and the whole 

 ts the rearrr^anagenfient of a Swifs farmer »(3ay //'z;/>7^. It is the hiffory 

 6f his pradrce ;/and diiplays an example, not only of economy, indiiftry, 

 fobriety, and every domefiic virtue ; but alfo of rooft fpirited hulbandfy, 

 uiuch more corred and accurate than moft of our Britifli farmers can 

 boaft. Itdifplays a poor peafant, coming to a fmall farm overwhelmed 

 wirh mortgages, pradiiling fo animated an agriculture, 33 not only to gain 

 enough todifcharge his incumbrances j but to purchafc more land, and to 

 cultivate \\\t whole with unremitted diligence and reatiiefs,— I ihouM 

 i think 



* Intitled, Rural Economy ^^ or EJfsjt on the practical (•arts of hnfi^andr^i 



