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^)ME Apology may seem necessary for publishing 

 a new work on Agriculture ; a subject which has been 

 -so ably handled both in Europe and in this country. — 

 Let the following suffice as all we have time to offer on 

 this head. — That as knowledge is naturally advantageous, 

 and as every man ought to be in the way of information, 

 even a superfluity of books is not without its use, since 

 hereby they are brought to obtrude themselves on us, 

 and engage us unawares. This advantage, an ancient 

 father observes, we owe to the multiplicity of books on 

 the same subject, that one falls in the way of one man, 

 and another best suit« the apprehension of another. — 

 " Every thing that is written," says he, " does not come 

 into the hands of all persons : .perhaps some may meet 

 with my books, who may hear nothing of others which 

 ha^ e treated better of the same subject. It is of service, 

 therefore, that the same questions be handled by several 

 persons, and after different methods, though all on Ihe 

 same principles, that the explications of difficulties, and 

 arguments for the truth, may come to the knowledge of 

 ever}^ en?, by one way or other." Add to this that our 

 work proibsses little more than to abridge, compress. 



