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of which they arc fand, are often extolled beyond reality, and they i\- 

 low too much to fancy in their defcriptions. It muft be a long courfe of 

 otpericnents which alone can determine whether this or that grain or grafe 

 ma^ be naturalized with real benefit to a country ; or whether the adop- 

 tion of a new fyftem of hu{bandry, with its attendant cxpence, be an ad- 

 vantageous compenfaiion for abandoning an old one. Experiments ofterE' 

 fucceed to admiration in a well-cultivated garden ; bat when extended, 

 the utility is found abforbed in the expence of labor.— I have alfo obferr- 

 cd, that new inventions are vtiyjlsxv in their effed^s, and can be of no 

 real benefit till they become habitual or general. — It is a work of time to 

 convince a psafant that the alterations you propofe are eligible ; and to 

 perfuade him to renounce his prejudices, and change the habits received 

 froaj his forefathers for new ones. 



NOe III. 



Another y^rticle from Dr. HirzeL 



A Letter from Dr. Hirzel to the Abbe Sigifmond, Count of Rfotlicn- 

 wart and Piefidcnt of the College of the Norjh [du Nord], of Liniz, 

 (dated 4 Oclober, 1774)) " inserted in the French tranflation ; but as it 

 h^as no relation to Kliyogg, it was omined in its place ; though it con- 

 tains ufetul remarks lefpefiing the merits of agriculture, and the injuiy 

 iont to it by luxury, manufactures, defpotifm, armies, &c. 



It is worthy of notice however, that famine is reprefented as having 

 caafed grent mortality among roanufs^urers and other purchafen of the 

 earth's prodo(f^ions ; but es having had no effef^ among thofc who culti' 

 dialed the earth for food. The French tranilatof adds curious accounts of 

 the diminution of Qiarriages and births among the former, in addition to' 

 yhe insreafed number of deaths. 



The following paffages alfo merit 3 place h'er*. ♦* Columella (fays Df. 

 « Hirzel) affures us, that agriculture is int2rnat?yy allied with wifdora 5 

 « and I can affirm from my own experience, that the afliduity amd Ikill in 

 • agriculrcre of our villages always affords a certain prefumption rn favor 

 « of iiieir attachment to religion and gocd mollis ; and that it is rare to 

 ^ find thefc virtues, except in company with each other," — <• A good 

 ^ cultivator is foon turned into a good foldier ; and many of our oldeft 

 •s officers in foreign fervice have informed me, (hat they have conflantly 

 «' cbferved, that every feldier draixn from the feofantry it a good JQldier 

 " mpropQvthn sa ht has been a go^d peajc:n\** 



No, IV. 



