TO THE READER. ix 



the fubjecl: ought to be written, in the 



FAMILIAR LANGUAGE OF FARMING; 



and, many of them, in the provincial 

 phrafeology of the Diftrid: they were 

 written in. I confefs, however, that, in 

 revifing them for publication, I thought 

 it prudent to do away fome of the 

 FAMILIARISMS of the original Minutes. 

 If, in the prefent form, they furnim fuch 



PRACTICAL DATA and NATURAL FACTS 



as may, in the end, be ferviceable to the 

 main defign, and, in the inftant, be ac- 

 ceptable to PRACTITIONERS, and ufeful to 

 the STUDENT, the intention of publifhing 

 them will be fully obtained. 



London, Feb. i, 1787. 



