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lay before the Public facts that have 

 been fuccefsfully reduced to practice 

 by himfelf. 



Each particular fubject he means to 

 treat of, he will take up from the. 

 beginning, and to give the moft 

 minute directions as to the method of 

 culture, labour, and management ; 

 together with thefeafons that each par- 

 ticular work is to be performed 



The planting of poor waftes, moor- 

 lands, and apparent barren mountains, 

 has been but feldom treated of, and 

 in very few places attempted. 



The fuccefs the Author has had in 

 planting fuch grounds, even in the 

 north of Scotland, has induced him to 

 treat that fubjecl: rather largely ; and 

 he flatters himfelf that, if his direc- 

 tions are followed, extenfive tracts of 

 land which are now ufelefs, may be* 

 come ornamental and profitable. 



