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rably the beft; fince, not content with 

 ferving up a few barren and lifelefs truths, 

 it leads to the flock on which they grew ; 

 it tends to fet the reader himfelf in the 

 track of invention, and to direct him in- 

 to thofe paths in which the author has 

 made his own difcovery, if he mould be 

 fo happy as to have made any that are va- 

 luable." 



I will place this fubjecl: in a light com- 

 parative with two of the learned profef- 

 iions. MINUTES, in rural economy, are 

 as CASES in phyfic and furgery, and as 

 REPORTS in law. They are all, and 

 equally, if equally authentic, PRACTICE 

 IN ITS BEST FORM. For an agricultor 

 cannot regifler an incident, a furgeon, a 

 cafe, nor a lawyer, the proceedings and 

 decifion of a court, with any degree of 

 accuracy and perfpicuoufnefs, until he 

 has afcertained, and fct before him, the 

 facls and attendant circumflances refpecl:- 

 ing it 5 and has revolved in his mind 

 the caufe, the operation, and the effect. 



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