MANNERS. <o$ 



therefore well deferve ample encouragement j I have added 

 the condition of being let by way of fatisfaftory proof, that the 

 improvement is completely finifhed, for if it was kept in 

 liand, it would be a matter of opinion and valuation, which 

 is never fatisfatElory. The planting premiums would in all pro- 

 bability have many claimants. The (lone wall is eflential ; 

 planting without prefervalion is trifling. 



As to the nature of the premiums, I recommend, ,viz. 

 pieces of plate, I think they would have a greater effeft than. 

 any thing elle ; money would be out of fight and forgotten ; 

 a medal that has been proftituted to all forts of trifles, would 

 be a contemptible reward for fuch exertion*, but a handfome 

 cup, vaze, tray, table, &c. would be always in fight, and on 

 every occafion a fubjeft for converfation to animate others to 

 gain the fame. The experience of a few years would prove 

 whether the quantities of land required were too high or not. 

 An mfpeftor to view all proceedings would be abfolutely necef- 

 fary, whofe reward fhould be deviled in fuch a manner as to 

 fecure his integrity; unlefs fome gentlemen of confiderable 

 confequence in the neighbourhood took that office voluntarily 

 upon them. 



Some premiums upon thefe principles, united with fuch a 

 plan as I have ftated for the eftablifliment of a farm, would be 

 aitended with all the advantage to the national agriculture, 

 in the power of any fociety to effect. The expence would not 

 be fo large as not to leave a confiderable portion of the focie- 

 ty's funds for trade and manufactures, and confequently to 

 pleafe thofe who wifhed fuch objects not to be neglecled, 



SECTION XVII, 



Manners and Culonis* 



Quid Itgis 

 Vana projiciunt f 



IT is but an illiberal bufinefs for a traveller, who defigns to 

 publim remarks upon a country, to fit down coolly in his 

 ciofet and write a fatire on the inhabitants. Severity of that 

 fort muft be enlivened with an uncommon fliarc of wit and ri- 

 dicule, to pleafe. Where very grofs absurdities are found, it 

 is fair and manly to note them ; but to enter into character and 

 difpofition is generally uncandid, fince there are no people but 

 might be better than they are found, and none but have vir- 

 tues which deferve attention, at leaft as much as their failings ; 

 for thefc reafons this fetlion would not have found a place in 

 my obfervations, had not fome perfons of much more flippan- 

 cy than wifdom, given very grofs mifreprefentations of the 

 Jrifli nation. It is with pleafure, therefore, that I take up the 

 pen, on the prefent occafion -, as a much longer refidence 



